Author: Sarah Cooke

Richfield teacher Monica Byron will be the next president of Education Minnesota following an election Saturday at the union’s annual convention.

The latest threat to federal funding for Minnesota’s public schools shows the biases of President Trump’s administration, but isn’t binding on Minnesota school districts, Denise Specht, president of Education Minnesota, said Friday. 

The Minnesota Senate released the first details of its plan for the state budget on Friday, and while it delivers on promised increases to E-12 education, it doesn’t provide enough money for improving teacher pensions.

Education Minnesota-St. Francis filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the St. Francis Area Schools unlawfully bans books in libraries and classrooms based on the ideas, characters and stories they contain. 

Education Minnesota continues its advocacy for educators and students through a series of new advertisements featuring members of the union that will air on digital platforms starting Monday, March 24, and on broadcast and cable television starting March 31. 

President Donald Trump abandoned public education in America on Thursday with an executive order to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education, said Denise Specht, president of Education Minnesota.

The 2025 Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be chosen from a field of 142 candidates. These candidates have accepted their nominations and completed the required materials to become eligible for the honor.  

Education Minnesota said educators and parents would successfully resist the the executive orders issued Tuesday evening by President Donald Trump, which promised sweeping and illegal changes to American education. 

Minnesota’s fourth and eighth graders who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress last year scored about the same as students in the same grades who took the test in 2022.