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Aaliyah Murray organized a statewide school walkout protesting gun violence. The walkout comes one week after a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. she joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about what Minnesota students would like to see changed.
Aaliyah Murray organized a statewide school walkout protesting gun violence. The walkout comes one week after a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. she joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about what Minnesota students would like to see changed.
Progressives take a leaf out of the conservative playbook to target school boards
There has been a groundswell of conservative enthusiasm around school politics in the last few years. Progressives are hoping to have their own source of organization to counter that enthusiasm.
Biking and hair care: They don’t have much in common, but Rochester Public Schools leaders think otherwise. This spring they've started hosting after-hours events in select schools that teach both skills in an effort to bring real-life experiences to kids that get the entire community involved.
At a Minnesota evangelical school, Black students sought racial reckoning, then felt the pushback
Some students of color at the University of Northwestern say there's a pattern of casual racism on campus, rooted in its history. The current president says the suburban Twin Cities school is working on change but concedes not everyone agrees change is needed, and “we’re never going to reach utopia.”
‘It was surreal’: Hundreds of low-income Twin Cities students win $16,000 scholarships
St. Paul non-profit Wallin Education Scholars provided the scholarships to hundreds of college-bound students in the Twin Cities including Erin Tetter, who hopes to become a teacher.
The college decision and why fewer Minnesota students are enrolling
May is traditionally the month when many high school seniors make their final decisions about where they’ll go to college. But fewer of them are enrolling. Angela Davis asks a school counselor and college admissions director why.