With this proposal, we make historic investments in our schools.

The cost of college may go down for many Minnesotans if funding goes up in the manner proposed in the omnibus higher education finance bill.

Educators in high-needs schools licensed through alternative pathways could be pulled out of the classroom — and forced to do training all over again.

Class sizes in Minnesota schools are spiraling out of control, parents and educators say. Classrooms of 30 or 35 students are becoming increasingly common, impairing educational outcomes and causing teacher burnout.

The majority of Minnesota students are below proficiency levels in math and just over half are proficient in reading — a sharp decline since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. And national culture wars are making their way into school board elections and meetings.

Minnesota is facing a shortage of teachers in every district, across every discipline, at every grade level. But this shortage is especially dire in one particular area: special education.

DFL legislators introduced a bill on Tuesday to make college tuition-free, following a push from student advocates to place college affordability and student basic needs on the legislative agenda.

The Legislature is expected to approve funding to provide all Minnesota students with lunch and breakfast

Seventeen percent of Minnesota’s students qualify as needing special education.

Thursday, officials from the Department of Education presented the price tag for achieving this grand goal to the House Education Finance Committee: $6.9 billion.

The Pledge of Allegiance will not be recited at Bemidji Area Schools Board of Education meetings.

Growing shortage of full-time and substitues teachers