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The two senators visited BHS in order to better understand the impact of recent state investments in education as well as to listen to feedback from students, teachers and school administrators.

This year, many of the Pioneer’s top stories centered around growth, healing, relationships and community. Even in the midst of some hard losses it was a rejuvenating year of progress.

Superintendent Olson: School zones at Highland CHS

Superintendent Olson: February Community Communication

Crookston School Board hears from parents about proposed speaker

School Board approves health and safety measures for 2021-2022

Here are a couple of updates from Crookston Public Schools: Mask Mandate in Schools: As you no doubt have heard, the mask mandate in Minnesota has just been dropped for the general public. The mask mandate however, has not been dropped for schools. Minnesota Schools are requiring masks through the end of this school year while in school buildings or on school transportation.  Graduation: We are very happy to announce that this years graduation will be a normal graduation with the exception tha...

Future of old bus garage discussed Crookston Times     Crookston School District is working toward bid opening for the sale of the old bus garage downtown plus they’ve solicited bids for demolition of a dilapidated portion of the property, Superintendent Jeremy Olson told the School Board at this week’s special meeting. Olson said he received a “very ballpark estimate” for the demo work and after not being comfortable with the numbers said he’s in discussions with a Polk County rep...

Crookston School District Superintendent Jeremy Olson Greetings from Crookston Public Schools! We are in what I believe is the last stage of this virus’s effect on schools. Maybe I am being overly optimistic, however, my thought process for the next school year is one in which we see a normal school year as a majority of our population becomes vaccinated over the coming months. Here are a couple of things that you should know as we move forward: Current COVID Situation: In a month’s time, w...

Superintendent Olson: Wrapping up 2020, preparing for 2021 Submitted by Jeremy Olson Crookston Times     Happy Holidays from Crookston Public Schools! Here are a couple of updates as we wrap up 2020 and prepare for 2021.     ACT data was just released that shows that Crookston High School students composite scores increased by 2 points. The average composite ACT score improved to 20.8 for 2020. Congratulations to our students for increasing this composite ACT score!     Reminder to Par...