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Education News

MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

Stay informed about local education events, policies and more happening in schools and colleges across Minnesota.

Biden eyes $3T package for infrastructure, schools, families

Biden eyes $3T package for infrastructure, schools, families

Fresh off passage of the COVID-19 relief bill, President Joe Biden is assembling the next big White House priority, a sweeping $3 trillion package of investments on infrastructure and domestic needs.
by The Associated Press

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Comic: How one math teacher broke through to her virtual students

Comic: How one math teacher broke through to her virtual students

A year ago, teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways amid the backdrop of a pandemic. In this comic series, we'll illustrate one teacher's story each week.
by LA Johnson

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CDC says schools can now space students 3 feet apart, rather than 6

CDC says schools can now space students 3 feet apart, rather than 6

In many places, the 6-foot guidance was interpreted as requiring schools to operate on part-time schedules in order to reduce class sizes. A 3-foot rule would allow many more schools to fully reopen.
by Anya Kamenetz and Cory Turner

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Education Dept. begins rolling back Trump-era policies on defrauded students

Education Dept. begins rolling back Trump-era policies on defrauded students

The U.S. Department of Education says it is scrapping a controversial, Trump-era policy that granted only partial student loan relief to borrowers who were defrauded by private, for-profit colleges.
by Cory Turner

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Two students reflect on a year of remote learning

Today marks one year since Gov. Tim Walz ordered K-12 schools in the state to close as officials scrambled to contain the spread of COVID-19. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer checked back in with two Minnesota students she first spoke with last April, when they were wrapping up their senior years of high school.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'It’s time to create our own table': Minnesota Parent Union seeks to empower students and families

'It’s time to create our own table': Minnesota Parent Union seeks to empower students and families

Founded in 2019, the Minnesota Parent Union is an education advocacy group trying to amplify the concerns of Minnesota parents. Organizers say challenges brought about by the pandemic have underscored the need to give parents a bigger voice in the system.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Why is it taking so long to get high-speed internet to all of greater Minnesota? 

Why is it taking so long to get high-speed internet to all of greater Minnesota? 

MPR News host Angela Davis talks to Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove and the president and CEO of the Blandin Foundation about how the pandemic underscored the need for better broadband. 
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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How the pandemic can reinvent schools and learning

How the pandemic can reinvent schools and learning

Keynote speakers from the Global Minnesota’s International Day of Education event in January: California’s Linda Darling-Hammond and Audrey Azoulay of UNESCO.
by MPR News Staff

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Effort to increase teachers of color finds bipartisan support at state Capitol

More than a third of the state’s K-12 learners are students of color, but fewer than 6 percent of teachers in Minnesota are educators of color. A set of bills at the state Legislature to close that gap, the Increase Teachers of Color Act, has garnered bipartisan support this year.
by Cathy Wurzer and MPR News Staff

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