Education

The private school in Minneapolis, badly damaged by a gas explosion in 2017, has rebuilt its high school campus and is about to resume classes at its century-old home on West River Parkway.

Minneapolis Public Schools is partnering with the Native American community in the Twin Cities on a new kind of professional development for teachers, designed to help educators become more culturally proficient.

Although Youth Outdoors-Duluth doesn’t run any outdoor programs itself, the group works as the connective tissue between outdoor organizations and young people who might not otherwise have access to the state’s vast outdoor programs.

Someone had painted “DON’T DO IT” on a lift, an excavator and a compressor left at the site of the church demolition.

The former St. Andrew’s Catholic Church is being razed to make way for an expansion at Twin Cities German Immersion School, which owns the Romanesque Revival-Byzantine structure. 

The first day of class in El Paso's largest school district comes more than a week after a deadly mass shooting. "It's not at all, in any way, a typical start of school," the superintendent says.

About 500 children are attending a camp this week or next designed specifically by and for people with diabetes. The aim is stigma-free fun.

Dyslexia is common, as many as one in five children struggle with this learning disability, according to Yale’s Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. Yet crucial early intervention is often delayed, which can cause lasting damage. 

The number of girls in the juvenile justice system has been rising because of arrests for low level offenses like running away or violating curfew. Kentucky is now taking a different approach. 

It’s now been six months since Boy Scouts of America expanded and rebranded, opening its doors to boys and girls. In Minnesota, hundreds of girls have signed up. "We’re setting the example," said one.