Minnesota Public School Enrollment Drops 2% Amid Pandemic
The state allocates school funding based on enrollment, and districts stand to lose about $10,164 for every student they failed to keep.
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The state allocates school funding based on enrollment, and districts stand to lose about $10,164 for every student they failed to keep.
Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday an update to the state's Safe Learning Plan to allow more high school and middle school students to return to classrooms next week.
A proposal to ensure a quality public education as a constitutional right is resurfacing at the Minnesota State Capitol, an effort that supporters say takes on new urgency with the pandemic widening an already vast achievement gap that hurts poorer Minnesota children and students of color.
Thousands of Minnesota students will head back into the classroom Tuesday.
A survey of 2,000 parents were asked on how good their math skills were.
Thousands of students and educators around the Twin Cities will head back into a classroom Monday morning. For many, it will be for the first time in months.
Gov. Tim Walz released on Monday a slate of his education priorities that he believes will help ensure high-quality education is available to all Minnesota students no matter their race or socio-economic status.
The state was allotted 68,000 doses to give out this week. Of that, 6,000 doses were set aside for educators and child care center workers.
The plan will be for students in second grade and younger to return to classrooms Feb. 8, to be followed by students in third, fourth and fifth grade to return two weeks later -- on Feb. 22.
The decision will make $14 million to $28 million available to teens across the state. A local group of students brought forward this issue to make a change.
The state has seen explosive growth in cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks, surpassing 7,000 cases in a single day on Thursday for the first time since the pandemic began.
The new report that came out this morning shows that Minnesota schools from Nov. 1 to Nov. 7 had over 750 COVID-19 cases reported. That number was between 100 and just over 300 in September.
Rising COVID cases means several Minnesota school districts are considering big changes.
Four kindergarteners in the Kenny neighborhood are doing distance learning together during the week, rotating houses each day. Parents of the children take turns facilitating and hosting class.
