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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.

St. Paul leaders back contentious school reform plan

St. Paul leaders back contentious school reform plan

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is lending his political power to a plan to reform the city's public schools. Superintendent Valeria Silva wants to focus resources on neighborhood schools, in part by reducing citywide busing to magnet schools.
by Sasha Aslanian

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The shifting senior citizen discount for higher education

The shifting senior citizen discount for higher education

A bill in the Minnesota Legislature would lower from 66 to 62 the age at which people are considered senior citizens -- and thus can get a huge discount on tuition.

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House committee: Tuition cap? Freeze? Neither?

The companion bill to Sen. John Carlson’s (R-Bemidji) tuition-freeze proposal hit the House higher ed committee today, causing Democrats to question both its constitutionality and effect on colleges and universities. Bill HF856, authored by committee member Bruce Vogel (R-Willmar) and seven other non-committee Republicans, would institute a two-year tuition freeze beginning July 1, but also…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why setting up a MnSCU endowment is tricky

“The University of Minnesota is lucky (to be independent from the legislature). I’ve tried to set up scholastic endowment for MnSCU — but as soon as we’d set it up we’d steal it from them.” — Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) on politicians’ habit of using higher-education appropriations for other purposes.
by Alex Friedrich

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U of M grad students redesigning Nicollet Mall

Some graduate students at the University of Minnesota are trying their hand at redesigning downtown Minneapolis' historic Nicollet Mall.

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The shifting senior citizen discount for higher education

The shifting senior citizen discount for higher education

Sixty-something students take notice: Yesterday, senators on the higher education committee discussed SF 546, a bill introduced by Chairwoman Michelle Fischbach (R-Paynesville), that would lower from 66 to 62 the age at which people are considered senior citizens — and thus can get a huge discount on tuition. Fischbach brought forward 64-year-old Ken Kastner of…
by Alex Friedrich

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Sandbag, analyze Shakespeare, sandbag. Repeat.

Sandbag, analyze Shakespeare, sandbag. Repeat.

Looks like Minnesota State University – Moorhead will be able to use its emergency plan — born of the 2009 H1N1 epidemic — to keep students working and in communication with instructors during any flooding this year, Tim Borchers, dean of arts and humanities, tells The Advocate: “We’re still planning to have the expectation that…
by Alex Friedrich

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How a Maple Grove man resold instructor-edition textbooks

How a Maple Grove man resold instructor-edition textbooks

In case you were looking for a local angle on a story I posted on people who illegally resell instructor-editions of textbooks, here’s one from the Pioneer Press involving Joel Thomas Almgren, a businessman and failed MBA student from Maple Grove who eventually filed for bankruptcy after the gig was up. The paper cites a…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Religion, retirement and hiding SAT scores

Hiding kids’ SAT scores from them When their three kids were applying for college, Debby and Larry Demaree never let them know what their SAT scores were. “We told them that the scores were unimportant and not a measure of who they are or what they want in life,” Debby said. “Did we test prep? No. Did…
by Alex Friedrich

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State acts to close online charter school

Minnesota education officials are taking steps that will likely lead to the closing of BlueSky, an online charter school based in West St. Paul.
by Dan Olson

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