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Minneapolis South High officials look to move beyond brawl

Minneapolis South High officials look to move beyond brawl

Classes were in session Friday at Minneapolis South High School, the day after a lunch room brawl involving hundreds of students. School officials say they are trying to move beyond yesterday's fight, which some students say was caused by racial tension at the school. The incident has other districts examining how they respond to problems among groups of students.
by Tim Post

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Bill would boost Minn. early childhood ed

A new bill introduced this week in the state Senate would offer early learning scholarships to low-income families so they could send their 3- and 4-year-olds to quality preschool and child-care programs.
by Laura Yuen

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Dayton wants to boost funding for English language learning

Dayton wants to boost funding for English language learning

For 65,000 students in Minnesota, English is not their first language. The state spends $40 million annually to help those students learn English, while they also study math, reading, writing, and other subjects. Gov. Mark Dayton wants to boost funding for the state's English language learning programs by 12 percent a year, in hopes of increasing student test scores.
by Tim Post

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St. Thomas' female president reflects trends in Catholic education

St. Thomas' female president reflects trends in Catholic education

University of St. Thomas trustees have broken with tradition and named as woman as president-elect. Every previous president in the 128-year history of the school has been a Catholic priest.
by Alex Friedrich

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Minneapolis South High School student brawl involves hundreds

Minneapolis South High School student brawl involves hundreds

Hundreds of students got into a brawl at Minneapolis South High School Thursday afternoon, after a food fight spun out of control. Four people suffered minor injuries.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Minneapolis couple gives $8M to Marquette

A Minneapolis couple has donated about $8 million to Marquette University in Milwaukee to establish a journalism fellowship.

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Notes in the Margins: Prof advice, transgender students and tech schools

College Health Plans Respond as Transgender Students Gain Visibility Over the last decade, as activists started pushing colleges to accommodate transgender students, they first raised only basic issues, like recognizing a name change or deciding who could use which bathrooms. But the front lines have shifted fast, particularly at the nation’s elite colleges, and a growing…
by Alex Friedrich

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Will the University of St. Thomas be led by a woman?

Will the University of St. Thomas be led by a woman?

The Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal reports that the University of St. Thomas might name its first female leader: If approved by St. Thomas’ Board of Trustees this week, Julie Sullivan would be the St. Paul-based school’s first female and first lay person to serve as president. She is currently the chief academic and…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Bus rides, ethics and a high school warning

Does an ‘A’ in Ethics Have Any Value? Four years after the scandals of the financial crisis prompted deans and faculty to re-examine how they teach ethics, some academics say they still haven’t gotten it right. (The Wall Street Journal) A warning to college profs from a high school teacher Now you are seeing the results of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Report: Cities have hundreds of empty schools

Hundreds of schools in the nation's largest cities are sitting empty as education officials struggle to sell these potentially valuable properties that are a drain on school district finances, a studay says.

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