Author: Sarah Cooke

The Minnesota Legislature passed several meaningful bills to improve public education in Minnesota this session, including on the last working day voting to fund the first comprehensive study of the spiraling health insurance costs of Minnesota school districts. 

A federal court denied a request for a preliminary injunction in Fridley Public School District (ISD 14) et al. v. Mullin et al., allowing immigration enforcement activity at and around public schools in Minnesota to continue for now while the case moves forward. 

Education Minnesota has endorsed the reelection campaign of U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District.

David Davis, an instrumental and general music teacher at Park Spanish Immersion Elementary in the St. Louis Park school district, is the 2026 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.

The new Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be named this Sunday, May 3. The Saint Paul RiverCentre hosts this year’s Teacher of the Year event.

Tens of thousands of Minnesota’s public school educators led the state’s Class of 2025 to the highest four-year high school graduation rate in state history, Education Minnesota said Friday. 

The 2026 Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be chosen from a group of 11 teachers who have been named finalists in the program.

Education Minnesota launched a statewide advertising campaign this week calling for passage of the Educator Group Insurance Program.

Educators from across Minnesota gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday to demand a structural fix to the health insurance affordability crisis that is pushing out educators and consuming historic state investments in public education before they reach most classrooms.