Education

Sponsored by the nonprofit Safe Routes to School, the annual, national day encourages students to walk or bike to school.

The impact on the board, district is unclear as the legal process moves forward with next court date set for Oct. 16.

The designation comes from the Minnesota Elementary School Principal's Association.

The open house before the first day of school kicked off a year with "an exceptional amount of change" in Grand Rapids between budget cuts and new grade-level buildings.

A citizen group challenged the closure of the South Koochiching-Rainy River school near the Canadian border. This leaves only the Northome School to serve the 1,500-square-mile district.

A total of 364 non-resident and non-reciprocity students paid more because of this tuition difference last year, according to the college.

The budget crunch in Thief River Falls underscores the challenges facing districts throughout greater Minnesota: They need increasingly skeptical, aging residents to vote for higher taxes in an era of rising attacks on public schooling in the national media.

Last week's celebration culminated a long-term plan to better serve Indigenous students living in the Twin Cities metro.

Ex-school board member Dennis Dodge proposed the monument at the Board's May 20 meeting.

Linda Sirvio retired as a reading and math interventionist but spent most of her career teaching second grade. She's spent nearly her entire life in the town she loves.