Author: Sarah Cooke

Statewide Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments scores held steady in reading and math, and the Minnesota Department of Education reported consistent attendance rates improved again.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Minnesota Teacher of the Year award.

Education Minnesota extends its deepest sympathies to the educators and families affected by the latest act of mass gun violence in Minnesota, this time at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. 

Education Minnesota condemned the Trump administration’s decision to withhold $6.8 billion in congressionally approved funding from states, calling the move an illegal attack on public education that will harm Minnesota’s students, families and communities. 

Minnesota educators mourn the loss of a dedicated lawmaker and staunch champion of public education, House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated as part of a series of attacks early Saturday that also killed her husband and wounded a state senator and his wife. 

The Minnesota Legislature came together in a special session Monday night to support public education by passing a budget that kept the most important parts of the historic, pro-education budget of the 2023 session.

St. Francis Area Schools has agreed to return dozens of banned books to its libraries and classrooms to settle a lawsuit filed by Education Minnesota-St. Francis on behalf of eight students.