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North High School student leaders call for building improvements Students say years of disinvestment have left the high school looking like “a prison” with windowless hallways and mice Author: Lauren Leamanczyk Updated: 10:31 PM CST February 18, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — Khadija Ba walked the hallways of North High School with her cell phone camera rolling, hoping the video she captured would send a message. “We are the blackest school in Minneapolis and this is...

Minneapolis schools prepare elementary buildings ahead of students return Mara Klecker, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/ANTHONY SOUFFLE • Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Pillsbury Elementary Principal Jessica Skowronek explained how teachers could use a portable plexiglass divider to interact with students safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic once in-person learning resumes. The tile floors in Pillsbury Community School in northeast Minneapolis are shiny clean and streak...

Judge grants Minneapolis teachers temporary restraining order halting in-person teaching for some elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 A weekend temporary order allowed some Minneapolis Public School District (MPS) teachers and staff to not return to in-person work Monday due to Covid-19 concerns, according to court documents.. MPS staff were expected to return to in-person teaching Monday, but a ruling from Hennepin County District Court Judge Susan Robiner said that staff and teachers who had a...

Teachers hold car rally to call for delay to in-person learning article Teachers and community members held a car rally at the St. Paul Public Schools district office, pushing for a delay to in-person learning amid the pandemic. MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Both St. Paul and Minneapolis school districts are making plans for elementary students to return to the classroom, but there is some concern they are moving too fast. In the parking lot of the district headquarters for St. Pa...

Minneapolis Public Schools is announcing its plan for the district's elementary schools to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.