Education

State health officials are now urging COVID-19 testing for children and college students who are returning to school. The announcement Thursday formally expands the list of who should seek a coronavirus test, and comes days after thousands of elementary school students began attending school in person for the first time in months.

President Joe Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

President Joe Biden revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote "patriotic education" in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.

President Joe Biden plans to ask the Education Department to extend pandemic relief for about 41 million federal student loan borrowers through Sept. 30.

Students are back in classrooms, but only a small number of Minnesota educators and child care workers were registered to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

The College Board, citing the pandemic for the changes, will shift focus to a new digital version of the college entrance exam.

Thousands of Minnesota elementary students will be on their way to school Tuesday morning — some of them seeing their classrooms in person for the first time ever. The return of in-person instruction is again shifting the picture of what education looks like in the middle of a pandemic. 

The FAFSA uses tax data from two years ago to determine a student's eligibility for financial aid for college. But if your financial situation has changed since then, there are ways to get more money.

Designated as front-line essential workers, some educators see a path out of "the lion's den."

Teachers from some of the state’s largest school districts are voicing concerns about the return to in-person instruction, noting that they have yet to be vaccinated at a time when the COVID-19 virus is still spreading.