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1/3 A group of parents seeking a more rigorous academic program for their children has called upon the Edison Project to take its for-profit act to Roseville. The proposal, backed [...]

1/3 The black cases draped over the shoulders of hundreds of Minneapolis high school freshmen are more than the latest fashion statement. They're laptop computers, funded by a one-time $2.7 [...]

1/3 The easy way to give scholarship money is simply to write a check to a college. But retired Medtronic executive Winston Wallin says there's a method to his madness [...]

1/3 All school committees and task forces now will seek out students as members, thanks to a resolution proposed by the Citywide Student Council and passed Tuesday by the Minneapolis [...]

1/3 The Minneapolis school board gave the green light Tuesday to a comprehensive plan to reform the city's middle schools, sticking with a controversial decision to move sixth grade from [...]

1/3 A long-awaited, once-derailed plan to reorganize Minneapolis middle schools is ready to roll. On Tuesday, the school board is expected to tell school officials to forge ahead with a [...]

1/3 The Minneapolis School District has been ordered to repay more than $7 million for improperly billing the state for nearly 200 staff members. According to an audit conducted by [...]

1/3 If someone drank too much and passed out, Gail Paulson said, she would put them to bed and let them sleep it off. That was one question the St. [...]

1/3 The St. Paul community needs to fasten its seat belts and get ready for a bumpy - but exciting - ride, new Superintendent Patricia Harvey said Tuesday in her [...]

1/3 Last of three parts. . Once some of the pain and embarrassment wears off, one Plymouth mother plans to tell her friends what she's learned about teen drinking. She'll [...]

1/3 To be an athlete at St. Paul's Cretin-Durham Hall, K.C. Baumgartner had to sign a pledge not to drink. But she wanted everyone to know that it wasn't just [...]

1/3 Spring break had a modest beginning in 1938 as the College Swim Forum, but it has developed into 'the ultimate single's bar scene,' during which binge drinking, drug taking [...]

1/3 Carol Mulheran resorted to a paid Caribbean cruise to keep her daughter, Colleen, away from Mexico over spring break. The Edina mother started her campaign last August, secretly meeting [...]

1/3 Second of three parts. . 'You are in Mexico! Nobody knows what the hell you're doing,' croons the DJ at the Dady O's disco on the Cancun strip. 'Dance [...]

1/3 Teenagers who drink have much in common. They tend to be closer to 18 than to 12 years old. They're not as happy and are more vulnerable to peer [...]

1/3 The dozens of 14-year-olds selling cosmetics, cleaning espresso machines and guarding buildings around Minneapolis on Wednesday were not a sign that workers are getting even younger. None of the [...]

1/3 One incumbent board member and three parents active in schools will run for the Minneapolis school board this fall with the endorsement of the DFL. The four candidates - [...]

The pep rallies paid off. Or maybe it was the tutoring. Or the new reading programs. Or the home-school liaisons who rustled kids out of bed to get them to [...]

Kenwood Elementary Principal Kathy Cahill wanted to expand an after-school program next year and start offering a foreign language. Instead, she's likely to be making cuts, losing a classroom aide [...]

***** Correction published 04/20/99: This article that mentioned Minneapolis school board member Ann Berget was incorrect. Her stepping down from the school board is unrelated to a race for the [...]

Samantha Braun doesn't want her friends to drink. But the Minneapolis high school junior says she's battling a tough phenomenon: parents' complicity. She and some 80 teens from across the [...]

An 11-year-old Brooklyn Park girl was in critical condition Saturday night after she was hit by a car while crossing Hwy. 252 on her bicycle, authorities said. The State Patrol [...]

The body of a man believed to be in his 30s was found in the Mississippi River on Saturday in St. Paul. A passerby flagged down a park ranger about [...]

When asked to list three wishes last week, 8-year-old Jordan Beckman said he'd like to be a football player - and a good reader. Another classmate wrote simply: 'I wish [...]

Marketing is moving into classrooms in a way that Steven DeLapp never expected. This year, the Barton Open School principal and leaders of Minneapolis' other in-demand magnet schools are being [...]

The next attempt to rescue failing students is targeting those least likely to succeed: black Minneapolis boys in eighth and ninth grades who have failed the state's basic-skills tests. And [...]

The Minneapolis school board voted Tuesday to alter its election schedule to ensure that future elections are held at the same time as state and national elections. As few as [...]

When he asks audiences to name a black boy on television who is known for his intelligence, Freeman Hrabowski hears a resounding chorus of 'Urkel.' With only the goofy youngster [...]

To thousands of Minneapolis families they're 'Linda and Bev,' the moms who've been there. Their kids went to middle school and did just fine. They know how it's done. But [...]

If such popular education concepts as 'open enrollment' and 'choice' really were put to the test, that could achieve another goal, 'desegregation,' the Minneapolis NAACP says. Under a preliminary mediation [...]

'You know that popular poster, `All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten?' ' a student wrote. 'Mrs. Brandon makes it come true.' It was praise like that [...]

Were it not for some 11th-hour intervention by a counselor at Roosevelt High School, Warren Bielke says, he'd probably still be a south Minneapolis gas-station attendant - and certainly not [...]

Minnesota is on a 'trajectory trend toward very serious segregation' and shouldn't be replacing an effective, though outdated, desegregation rule with one that is basically meaningless, a national expert on [...]

The phrase '15:1' is more than a math ratio to students at Centerville Elementary School. It has replaced Cougars as the slogan on school T-shirts, which are worn as proudly [...]

The first referendum report card is in, and the Minneapolis School District has given itself an 'A.' In 1996, voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal that gave the district roughly $33 [...]

It could take at least $600 million a year - and probably millions more - to get virtually all Minnesota students to pass the tests now required for high school [...]

More than 80 percent of Minnesota teachers say they know enough about the state's new graduation standards to apply them to their teaching. That information, gleaned from a state-sponsored survey [...]

Eight-pound Daniela Larkins may not be able to speak to her parents yet, but she didn't need words last week to get her most powerful message across. As her father [...]

Making sure poor parents are supporting their babies is critical if children are going to come to school ready to learn and on an equal footing with their classmates, school [...]

Hoping to avoid a long and expensive trial, state officials and the NAACP said Wednesday that they'll try mediation as a way to settle the educational adequacy lawsuit filed on [...]

Racial isolation in Minneapolis and St. Paul schools will 'almost certainly expand' over the next decade without major revisions to the state's proposed desegregation rule, according to school officials in [...]

The Minneapolis school board Tuesday unanimously rejected requests from four groups that asked the district to sponsor charter schools, saying none of the proposals was developed enough to meet the [...]

Minnesota Education Commissioner Bob Wedl is leaving his post Jan. 4 to become executive director of special services in the Minneapolis School District. As commissioner, Wedl oversaw implementation of the [...]

About 40 local foundation directors and CEOs watched intently Wednesday as a little girl told a story about a river's history and her classmates drummed out a rhythm and acted [...]

Allannah Little, 12, says it's pretty cool to move around Olson Middle School as a sixth-grader. 'I joke around with my mom if she calls me a kid,' Little says. [...]

The official motto of Olson Middle School says that it's a place where dreams come true. But the unofficial slogan has to be: 'We keep the hands busy.' Keeping fidgety [...]

At Powderhorn Elementary School in south Minneapolis, children have been clapping and singing their way to higher scores in math and reading. 'Keet, keet, par-a-keet,' they chant as music teacher [...]

Minneapolis school officials believe some students may need just a boost of confidence to get a passing grade on the state's basic-skills tests. And they think community volunteers may be [...]