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ANCHORAGE – U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor today signed an agreement with officials from the Ahtna Intertribal Resources Commission (AITRC) which coordinates natural resource management issues for the eight federally recognized tribes in the Ahtna region to create a cooperative wildlife management demonstration project on federal and Ahtna...

Eighth-grade students across the United States showed some improvement in math and science over the past four years, but fourth-graders’ performance was stagnant and students in both groups continued to trail many of their peers in Asia, according to the results of a major international exam released Tuesday. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or...

When President-elect Donald Trump announced Betsy DeVos as his pick to lead the U.S. education department, one thing became clear: His stated interest in channeling public dollars into private schools would be championed by a full-throated believer in privatization. But could Trump’s promise to launch a $20 billion national voucher program for low-income children ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's governor has suspended all five members of the local school board in Dooly County. Gov. Nathan Deal issued his decision on Monday, following a November recommendation by the State Board of Education that leaders of the central-Georgia district be suspended. State law allows a governor to intervene if a school district's accreditation is at risk....

As special education advocates pleaded for enough money to serve their students, Chicago Public Schools officials said Monday they’ll send charter schools $8 million in surplus tax increment financing money — part of $55 million released to pay for the new teachers’ contract. That’s what the district, which is still banking on $215 million in conditional aid from the...

BEMIDJI—The Homark Homes Hardwood Showcase is even bigger this year. The second-annual high school basketball event at the Sanford Center will feature nine games with both boys and girls basketball teams from around the area. The event kicks off Friday at the Sanford Center with a 4 p.m. game between Walker-Hackensack-Akeley and Sebeka and ends Saturday night with games...

The most consistent argument made by North Dakota regulators and the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline against the protest actions of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies is that the Tribe entered the pipeline approval process too late. They should have made their feelings known earlier in the process. In mid-November, just a couple weeks ago, Energy Transfer...

BEMIDJI—BSU and Northwest Technical College staff project the two schools could have between $2.4 million and $3.6 million in total budget shortfalls next fiscal year, but administrators hope to close that gap. Documents supplied at a pair of Monday budget forums indicate BSU could spend $2.36 million more than it expects to receive in the 2018 fiscal year, even if state...

BEMIDJI—A Puposky, Minn., man was charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct Wednesday after a woman said he picked her up from a Bemidji State University dorm, drove her to a remote location north of Lake Bemidji and sexually assaulted her. Richard Leif Erickson, 20, has been held in the Beltrami County Jail since early morning Tuesday, according to the jail's inmate...

BISMARCK – Gov. Jack Dalrymple wants to meet with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council in the coming days to discuss the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and begin rebuilding state and tribal relations. “In my opinion, we need to begin now to talk about how we are going to eventually arrive at a peaceful resolution of the situation and restore the relationship between...

CANNON BALL, N.D.— More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said, just ahead of a federal deadline for activists to leave the camp they have been occupying. It comes as North Dakota law enforcement backed away from a previous...