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Major money went to Minnesota schools over the last two years, but Minnesota's school leaders say the $110 million in READ Act funding hasn't closed their budget gaps.
Fox 9
Major money went to Minnesota schools over the last two years, but Minnesota's school leaders say the $110 million in READ Act funding hasn't closed their budget gaps.
Fox 9
Superintendents, principals and others from school districts large and small on Wednesday told a Senate panel that they are facing budget woes, despite record funding for education approved in the last few years
CBS News
Attendance Works recommends student engagement and decision making based on data analysis to boost attendance.
K-12 DIVE
The administration cited legal challenges and public comment in pulling the controversial regulation as the presidency is about to change hands.
K-12 DIVE
Minnesota lawmakers on Wednesday backed an education policy bill that prohibits book bans, requires schools to implement cell phone policies and adjusts requirements on literacy instruction.
MPR News
Most teacher contracts settled It’s been the slowest negotiating cycle for public school teacher contracts in the 20 years that the state teachers union, Education Minnesota, has been keeping track. But they’re nearly all settled now.
Minnesota Reformer
The 12-week pilot program is slated to start in the 2024-25 school year in collaboration with colleges in Duluth, St. Cloud and elsewhere in Greater Minnesota.
StarTribune
Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday moved forward with a K–12 education budget touch-up bill that allocates $55 million to literacy training for teachers, a pre-kindergarten program expansion and plans to study student absenteeism.
MPR News
Eighteen bills initially approved on a bipartisan vote by the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement have been rolled into the pension and retirement supplemental budget bill.
Session Daily
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A movement to ban book bans is gaining steam in Minnesota and several other states, in contrast to the trend playing out in more conservative states where book challenges have soared to their highest levels in decades.
AP U.S. NEWS
School districts across the state saw a total of $2.2 billion in new funding for the 2024-2025 biennium, a nearly 11% increase over the last state budget
TwinCities Pioneer Press
A newly released University of Minnesota report on Minnesota K-12 school principals found school leaders struggling to deal with student mental health.
MPR News