Dr. Brenda Cassellius, 51, who left her job when the Dayton administration was replaced in January, told a panel interviewing school superintendent candidate finalists in Boston on Tuesday that she’s been looking for ‘a district that’s ready to move the agenda for vulnerable kids.’ Read more →
What is it that gives us our identities? For a group of South St. Paul students, it’s sashes at commencement. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League, the organization that controls high school sports here, is giving up its opposition to allowing boys to be on competitive dance teams in high school. Read more →
Schools in the competition were given a single challenge and left to come up with something that would creatively accomplish the task. This year’s challenge: put money in a piggybank. Take a look at what the Chatfield kids built. Read more →
On the steps of West High School, someone painted ‘Immigration is white genocide’ in time for the kids to see it on their way into the school on Tuesday morning. Read more →
A seventh-grade teacher in Wisconsin is on leave after allegedly separating students by race and then telling the kids to research games from their culture.
For the black kids, it was ‘slave games,’ according to a seventh grader in Shorewood, Wis.
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The kids in Stillwater High School aren’t messing around, but the principal is pretty good at disarming them over an issue that’s got them stirred up: peeing. Read more →
How young is too young when it comes to recruiting future college sports players? Read more →
Former Minnesota Sixth District Congressman Mark Kennedy’s voting record may come back to haunt him as he tries to get a new gig as president of the University of Colorado. Read more →
Brian Rosenberg announced today he’s leaving as president of Macalester College a year from now. Over the next year, there will likely be well considered assessments of Rosenberg’s contributions to the local culture.
But we’re going to go with nothing topping this gem Read more →
The kids of the Aquinas girls basketball team on Thursday showed us why they’re two-time state champions. Read more →
Princehoward Barbecue Yee, of Falmouth, Maine, made a federal case last year out of his insistence that he be allowed to play baseball at Deering High School, which is in another school district from his residence. Read more →
The Columbine High School shooting 20 years ago this month is the massacre that started the wave of mass shootings in the modern crime era.
We’ve come a long way since then and many shootings never make it to the front page; they’re that common now. Read more →
Sometimes you get up in the morning and think there’s no hope in the world.
Today is not one of those days. Read more →
The ACLU had threatened a lawsuit against the Kenosha Unified School District after some parents and cheerleaders objected to the award and the New York Times wrote about. The coach circumvented the outrage, however, by announcing that parents would be excluded from the next team banquet.
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