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ST. PAUL - School Choice Week starts today in Minnesota and across America. Throughout the Week, which runs until January 31, there will be 194 school choice events across the North Star State. The events are part of National School Choice Week, which will feature 11,082 events across America - the largest celebration of educational opportunity in US history. School Choice Week events in Minnesota include open houses, information sessions, policy roundtable discussions and more - planned by schools, organizations, homeschool groups and...
As president of an inner-city Catholic grade school that depends critically on donations, Helen Dahlman admits to an unconventional fundraising strategy. “We believe in miracles, so we pray a lot,” said Dahlman, who leads Risen Christ School in south Minneapolis, a place devoted to poor immigrants and other severely disadvantaged kids....
Just hours before a popular teacher was shot to death near the bar he ran in the small east-metro community of Willernie, many patrons saw him refuse to serve an underage man and later ask the man to leave....
ROCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman got a surprise at a Burger King drive-thru: a bag full of cash instead of food. Janelle Jones says she discovered on the way home that the bag did not contain the sweet tea and junior spicy chicken sandwich that she had ordered Friday at the Rochester fast-food restaurant....
WASHINGTON – Listen to the contours of the debate on how to overhaul public education and it would be easy to conclude that most everyone is in a calm state of agreement. Republican Rep. John Kline, chair of the House Education Committee, says the 2002 No Child Left Behind law has outlived its usefulness. He doesn’t like the federally imposed, one-size-fits-all approach to how schools are treated and thinks decisions about how to measure student achievement and growth should be shifted back to local teachers, parents and sch...
Dorothy Johnson has been a bedrock volunteer in rural Braham, Minn., since she retired from finance in 1997. She helped raise money for the new $2 million community center and has been volunteer treasurer of her church and the local food shelf for more than 15 years. Now, at 84, Johnson is ready to hand over the reins....
Worried about their students, some St. Paul school staffers recently asked the public to donate winter coats for kids. Within a few days, they collected and distributed twice the number of coats they requested — all because a school employee said she had seen several children waiting for a bus this winter with only a towel wrapped around them....
KEY WEST, Fla. — Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases. Never before have insects with modified DNA come so close to being set loose in a residential U.S. neighborhood....
NEW YORK — A "potentially historic" storm could dump 2 to 3 feet of snow from northern New Jersey to southern Maine starting Monday, crippling a region that has largely been spared so far this winter, the National Weather Service said....
BENA, MINN. – Across the country, tribal schools are crumbling. One of every three of these schools, which the federal government is supposed to maintain, is falling apart from age, or because of the $1 billion maintenance budget backlog at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education....
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), the new chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, will be delivering a response to the State of Indian Nations today. The remarks by Barrasso are his first to Indian Country since taking control of the committee in the 114th Congress. He will be speaking after NCAI President Brian Cladoosby delivers the annual address at the Newseum in Washington, D.C....
On Feb. 10, 2015, the Sequim community will vote on a $49.2 million school facility bond. Last year, the district requested a $154 million bond. The community said no; it was too much and needed to be a more realistic goal. The Sequim School District leadership heard the message and pared back their request to a third of the desired need....
David Burnett exits as chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis much like his tenure over the previous 12 years: In a way that continues to grow the fortunes of the tribe and transform it into a major employer and player in south Thurston County. Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/01/25/4092882_chairman-burnett-who-led-chehalis.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy...
Minnesotans shouldn&rsquot idly stand by as American Indian schoolchildren attend class in a cold, unsafe, broken-down pole barn. That&rsquos why state policymakers, which includes Gov. Mark Dayton, merit praise and assistance for becoming at the forefront of efforts to rebuild the run-down Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High College on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation....
EL CAJON — A woman arrested on suspicion of killing her boyfriend and toddler son on the Barona Indian Reservation was released from jail Thursday night after her arraignment on murder charges was canceled....
EL CAJON (CBS 8/CNS) - A woman accused of killing her boyfriend and 3-year-old son on the Barona Indian Reservation was released from the Las Colinas Detention Facility Thursday evening....
The Center for Disease Control released a study on January 6 about U.S. deaths from alcohol poisoning based on two years of death certificate data, 2010 to 2012. It contains some expected results and some not so expected. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/22/death-drink-indian-countrys-curse-158804...
Louis J. Manuel Jr. and Delia M. Carlyle were recently named chairman and vice-chair by the Ak-Chin Indian Community Tribal Council respectively. Manuel and Carlyle will serve one-year terms for the Arizona tribe that sits nestled into the Santa Cruz Valley. Both have set goals focused on further expansion of the tribe’s economic projects and job creation for the community. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/24/ak-chin-tribal-council-selects-chairman-and-vice-chair-158831...
CHISHOLM — The Chisholm School District is rebuilding its Indian Education program. Superintendent Jim Varichak is working with Daniel Curry, who was recently hired as director for Indian Education, to get the program up and running....
A $100,000 donation will provide funds for a new scholarship benefitting Native Americans pursuing a degree in the health sciences field. The Dr. Walter Anyan Scholarship Endorsement was established by Carol Ann Anyan, of Guilford, Conn., to honor her late husband, and it will finance both incoming and current University of South Dakota students on their road to becoming a health care professional....
Pope Francis' decision to declare Father Junipero Serra a saint in recognition of his work as “the evangelizer of the West in the United States” represents a profound insult to Native Americans and an injustice to history....
ATLANTA – Tickets for the 2015 Atlanta Dream Classic at KFC Yum! Center on May 23 in Louisville, Kentucky are now on sale to the general public. Former Louisville Cardinals standout Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla) will play in the Classic with Angel McCoughtry, also a former Louisville player and current teammate on the WNBA team....
A Winnipeg hockey player was selected to attend the 2015 world selects in Sweden. The 10-year-old was chosen to play for Canada at a top prospects tournament on an international stage for minor hockey players....
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – Up to an estimated 900 bison will be slaughtered this winter. The culling plan calls for the majority of the bison targeted for death to be turned over American Indian tribes to be slaughtered and a small amount to be killed by hunters....
A proposal to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is drawing more questions than support in South Bend. Common Council member Henry Davis Jr. has introduced a resolution declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples Day, or Native Americans Day, instead of Columbus Day. Similar changes were made last year in Seattle and Minneapolis....
