The Board’s purview should be limited to ensuring that community resources are best allocated to educate children in the classroom, while minimizing risk to students and staff.
Red Wing Public Schools bought itself some extra time Monday to prepare for returning to classrooms during the pandemic: The board moved Day 1 from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8, 2020.
A task force recommended repurposing the Friedell Middle School building in 2018. The School Board, however, is also debating the concept of the district-wide program and whether that is something that needs to continue, either where it is now or at another facility.
Rochester students will receive leniency for the coursework they did during the period of distance-learning, which was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jim Price, a Mississippi native who grew up in the Jim Crow South and later became the first African American to serve on the Rochester School Board, died last Friday after a lengthy illness.
From school boards and school bonds to a race to fill a county commissioner seat in Goodhue County, special elections are dotting the landscape in Southeast Minnesota.
November 04, 2019 08:00 PM
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By By John Molseed and Brian Todd news@postbulletin.com
