MnSCU quietly doubles the cost of earning college credit in high school
In 1985, Minnesota passed a law to allow high school kids to start taking college courses in the 11th grade. Students across the state started earning credits that added up to entire years’ worth of...
View ArticleMinneapolis Public Schools tries to fire teacher Crystal Spring for watching...
Crystal Spring has been directing the Social Justice Black Box theater program at Washburn High School since 2008, helping students develop plays based on their own life experiences. The night of May...
View ArticleSt. Paul schools Superintendent Valeria Silva is apparently leaving
St. Paul Superintendent Valeria Silva is on her way out, the district confirmed Wednesday. The polarizing superintendent's departure is a long time coming. When Silva inherited St. Paul Schools in...
View ArticleAllina Health, to teachers union: Stop picketing us. Teachers: No.
When 4,800 nurses walked off the job this week to protest Allina Health's proposal to take away their union-fought health plans, they got a lot of sympathy and support from teachers. "This is more...
View ArticleVeteran St. Paul teachers say they were bullied out of work to save money
Last week, St. Paul Superintendent Valeria Silva received a golden parachute of nearly $800,000 to vacate the district’s top seat. It came as a sort of irony to a number of aging teachers who say they...
View ArticleSt. Paul Hmong charter school hires back teachers, narrowly escapes closure
The Community School of Excellence, a Hmong K-8 charter school in St. Paul, had one critical job to accomplish by July 1 in order to stay open. Charter schools need an authorizer – a separate,...
View ArticleLawsuit to forcibly desegregate Twin Cities schools moves closer to trial
Some 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools for black and white kids was inherently unfair, public schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul are...
View ArticleLawsuit: Bullies drove 13-year-old Tristan Seehus to kill himself
Tristan Seehus was just 13 years old, in his third year at Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth, when he decided that he no longer wanted to live. For years, he and his group of friends were the...
View ArticleA dad's thoughts on keeping kids safe from school bullying
Reader Scott Parkhurst responds to Lawsuit: Bullies drove 13-year-old Tristan Seehus to kill himself: I am absolutely sympathetic to the victim here. It's horrible that he had to deal with this...
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