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Five tips for kindergartners’ FIRST first day of school
Going to school for the first time is a big transition, but there are some things parents can do to ease the anxiety for their kids and themselves.
Program aims to ease summer food gap for school kids
The nonprofit Sheridan Story is working to help get food to kids who might go hungry in the days before the new school year.
'It's showtime': 4-H'ers work for months to get animals ready for State Fair
Each day at the Minnesota State Fair, thousands of people wander into the livestock barns to look at award-winning cows, sheep and pigs. But behind each of those animals — and sometimes sleeping in the stalls with them — are kids who have put in months of hard work preparing for the fair.
Elizabeth Warren slams student loan watchdog appointment as 'outrageous'
Robert Cameron was a top lawyer for one of the country's largest student loan servicers. In documents obtained by NPR, Warren called his hiring a "slap in the face to student loan borrowers."
New Minnehaha Academy poised to rise from ashes of gas explosion
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.
Youth Outdoors-Duluth bridges the gap between young people and the outdoors
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.
Native American tour is designed to educate teachers on historical trauma
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.