Ryan Heltemes may be the district's leading authority on small creatures called bioluminescent dinoflagellates.
This is the Washburn robotics team's third showing at the championship in four years.
The rules try to fight childhood obesity, but the transition to healthier foods hasn't always been smooth.
Despite having large numbers of politically active parents, Minneapolis parents don't have their own formal lobbying voice in St. Paul.
An education bill containing a proposal to grade teachers on quality will likely be released from committee on April 27, although it faces a veto from the governor partly because of deep cuts to urban schools.
Burroughs Community School pitches in to raise funds for Japan. They've already raised more than $1,000.
Glaze, who won a $4,000 'Beat the Odds' scholarship in March, plans to attend in fall 2011.
The bill cuts a type of state aid called "integration funding," on which many urban schools rely.
The principal has organized volunteers to help sandbag, just in case.
Senior Alex Glaze overcame extreme adversity to achieve his goal of academic and personal success. Now he’s readying for college and eager to make plans for the future.
At Tuesday night's school board meeting, administrators admitted they should make it clear to principals that students can't be accepted from across the city.
At last week's meeting, the school board approved the calendar for the 2011-2012 school year, but not without opposition from board members Rebecca Gagnon, Hussein Samatar, and Richard Mammen.
After years of claiming they’ve already cut to the bone, how are Minneapolis Public Schools preparing for more possible cuts and an unavoidable $10-30 million deficit?
The foundations pay for small improvements, extras and help recruit volunteers.
Among other news announced at Tuesday night's meeting for Southwest Minneapolis parents, the school district still faces somewhere between $10-26 million shortfall this year.