MPS board meets to discuss policy that could let high school students have phones in class
The Minneapolis Public Schools board is meeting on Tuesday evening to consider a major change to its student cell phone policy.
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The Minneapolis Public Schools board is meeting on Tuesday evening to consider a major change to its student cell phone policy.
More families in Minnesota can save money this back-to-school season if they hold onto their receipts for schools supplies.
Minnesota Tech for Success has worked for the last 25 years to help more than 130 schools across the state, as well as many nonprofits, to outfit them with computers and laptops that can be two to three times cheaper than buying new.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh plan to lay off scores of employees, offer early retirement deals and impose furloughs as they grapple with a projected $18 million deficit.
North Dakota lawmakers and higher education leaders are beginning to chart a path for how to respond to neighboring Minnesota's upcoming program that will offer income-based free tuition to thousands of students next year.
Experts say the aging electric system is clearly vulnerable to outages. But there's leading-edge research happening in the Twin Cities to improve the reliability and resiliency of microgrids, an option in the face of growing stressors to our aging grid.
Summer is in full swing, but some young people in the Twin Cities are learning visual storytelling, filmmaking, and editing through week-long camps.
The Republican-authored bill is meant to improve sagging reading scores and emphasizes phonics, the relationship between sounds and letters, over memorization. It also requires more frequent reading tests and employs reading coaches to help struggling students.
From students to families impacted by gun violence, the message was clear: "Protect kids, not guns." That was one of several chants heard as the massive group marched to the capitol building this morning.
Following the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ending affirmative action in higher education, the University of Minnesota updated their policy to no longer consider race, ethnicity, legacy, or employment at the university as a factor of admission.
Teresa De Young's mission has been in progress since 2018. Her son is diagnosed with Down syndrome, and she told WCCO last year, "When you see Will play with his sister or his peers, he's always five steps behind."
With school starting in about seven weeks, some bus companies are already looking to hire new bus drivers.
They say riding a bike is a skill you never forget. But many people never had the opportunity to learn -- until now.
So far, they've placed 800 young people in paid internships with the hope to expand to 1,000 next year.
A federal judge has blocked a Wisconsin school district from requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex they were assigned at birth.
