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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.

Higher enrollment causing Minnesota State Grant shortfall

Higher enrollment causing Minnesota State Grant shortfall

Higher enrollment and flat funding are diluting Minnesota’s main college financial aid grant program and leaving it with a shortfall of about $34.5 million over the next biennium, state Office of Higher Education officials reported today. Speaking before the state House committee on higher education, the officials said the State Grant, which provides financial aid…
by Alex Friedrich

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At the Capitol for House hearing on State Grant

Could be interesting in light of the governor’s budget presentation this morning. We’ll see whether the House committee on higher ed has anything interesting to say. I’ll post highlights, and you can follow my tweets on this at @MPRAFriedrich.
by Alex Friedrich

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Minn. educators call for help keeping kids of low-income familes fed during summer

Minn. educators call for help keeping kids of low-income familes fed during summer

Although it's only February, the Minnesota Department of Education has put out a call for non-profits, schools, and faith-based organizations to sponsor the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program.
by Julie Siple

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(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

Here’s what MPR reporter Tim Post has on the higher-ed portion of the governor’s announced state budget this morning. A fuller, more general story by MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar follows: Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget cuts $171 million from the state’s higher education budget. Both the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system see…
by Alex Friedrich

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U of Minnesota paper: Tuition freeze a bad idea

A tuition freeze looks like it would benefit students at the University of Minnesota, where tuition has doubled since 2001. But this is a simplistic, short-term point of view. The state has already limited the revenues of public universities through insufficient funding. Constricting revenues even further by freezing tuition will hamstring them and lower educational…
by Alex Friedrich

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Capella to fire 125 as stocks fall and enrollment forecast plunges

Just got this from Bloomberg this morning: Capella Education Co., a for-profit online-education company based in Minneapolis, fell as much as 15 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after forecasting a 35 percent decline in new enrollments for the current quarter. Capella also said it will fire 125 non-faculty employees, or 8 percent of its…
by Alex Friedrich

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Winona State University grad: Debt is keeping me from the career I want

Winona State University grad: Debt is keeping me from the career I want

Judging from its latest tweets, it looks like the Minnesota State Student Association is continuing to collect stories on how debt has affected recent grads. This video is the story of Josh Martin (search for his name in the survey results), who got a bachelor’s in English from Winona State University. He’s about $19,000 in…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Conservatives, drugs and the admissions arms race

A College Opts Out of the Admissions Arms Race Ursinus College in Pennsylvania decides it can no longer sustain annual, double-digit growth in applications, and in the process becomes the rare college making it harder to apply. (The New York Times) Obama’s education budget would spare Pell grants, increase spending 11% overall President Obama wants…
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Minn. officials open to another Race to the Top run

School officials in Minnesota say they'd be interested in applying for federal education funding in the so-called 'Race to the Top' contest, if Congress approves more funding.
by Tom Weber

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