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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.

How will the Anoka college alignment affect funding?

North metro newspaper site abcnewspapers.com has a few more angles on the plan to have only one president govern both Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College by next fall. The realignment is not a merger, but the article says community members are wondering about how the new arrangement will affect jobs and resources: And…
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Notes in the Margins: Italian, Muslim swimmers and the Senior 18

U research facility seeks relocation When Central Corridor light-rail construction begins on Washington Avenue next spring, a research facility located barely 30 feet away in Nils Hasselmo Hall faces serious consequences. (mndaily.com) College Board to revive its AP test in Italian The College Board announced on Wednesday the revival of the Advanced Placement test in…
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Why students are protesting in Britain

Why students are protesting in Britain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdMwpCO8t4&feature=player_embedded The crux: It was the first violent protest against 81 billion pounds ($130 billion) of  spending cuts ordered for the next four years by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition to tackle a record budget deficit. … Politicians will in the coming weeks vote on proposals to lift maximum tuition fees to 9,000 pounds ($14,500) a…
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St. Cloud State student charged with stealing racy MLB photos

St. Cloud State student charged with stealing racy MLB photos

Interesting cyber-crime story: The Star Tribune reports that 19-year-old St. Cloud State University student Leah M. Ayers of Apple Valley has been charged with breaking into the e-mail account of Playboy playmate Brittany Binger and stealing racy digital photos she’d received from her boyfriend, Cleveland Indians baseball player Grady Sizemore. Apparently, the photos all over…
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Video: Spitting fire in your dorm room

Video: Spitting fire in your dorm room

More Jackass dorm stuff. Imminent Darwin death, anyone? See a series of similar videos about such yahoos at the Web site campus-firewatch.
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St. Cloud State prepares to vote on athletics fee hike

They can’t all be like Georgia State University. As the St. Cloud Times reports, on Monday St. Cloud State University students will begin voting on whether to raise fees to help plug a budget hole and save some of the university’s athletics programs. Passing both measures could raise $600,000 a year and increase their per-credit…
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Minneapolis Schools budget deficit could be double original estimate

Minneapolis Public Schools district leaders had said next year's budget gap would exceed $20 million, but they now estimate it will be between $30 million and $45 million.
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Board gives North High a second chance

Board gives North High a second chance

The Minneapolis School Board voted Tuesday night to allow a group of community students to recruit new ninth graders for North High School next year.
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How much U-Minn. Rochester is growing

University of Minnesota – Rochester Chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle talks up the explosive growth of the campus — and the support it’ll need: “If we continue with our growth pattern, so the next year we’re going to have 150 freshman, the following year 200 freshman, when we get out about 5-6 years we’ll have about a…
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How a U-Minn. student copes with bedbugs

A University of Minnesota student named Sarah complains about the consequences of her landlord’s slow action to combat Minneapolis’ growing bedbug infestation: “No matter what I do, I’m still getting bit at night,” Sarah said. “I am to the point where I’m wearing sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks and a hood to bed so I don’t get…
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