education

Century Elementary School has been awarded a $603,000 grant for two years to improve literacy, the Park Rapids Area School Board learned Monday. Principal Joleen De La Hunt told the board about the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant from the Minnesota Department of Education,...

Laporte Public School's music program is officially back in place, and district leaders and the public at large are set to brainstorm ways to change it next year and beyond. School board members voted unanimously on Tuesday to rescind their earlier decision to eliminate the district's...

Do you have an outdoor, spring clean-up task? Century Middle School students want to help. Fifth through eighth graders are volunteering to help with community or individual outdoor projects. All service projects will be completed by Century School students and staff on Friday, May...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota's new way of licensing teachers is stumbling before it even gets started, frustrating supporters of the sweeping overhaul passed last year to fix a flawed system. Education officials say without more time to put the right procedures in place, the new Professional...

Nevis Public School and Menahga Public School closed Monday due to severe winter weather.

BEMIDJI, Minn.—A central Minn. high school teacher wants students and educators to leave class next month to make a point about school violence and pressure lawmakers to address a decades-long rash of school shootings. Gina Marie Bernard, an English teacher at Bemidji High School,...