2025

The president of the Stewartville United Educators labor union released the following statement Friday in response to the shootings outside Stewartville High School that critically wounded a student and left an adult male dead of a self-inflicted wound. 

Today’s budget forecast offers some stability as the Minnesota Legislature prepares to take on the increasing challenges facing Minnesota in 2026. In the upcoming legislative session, it will be critical to use the projected surplus to increase financial support for educators across Minnesota. 

School board voters across Minnesota overwhelmingly supported union-endorsed candidates in Tuesday’s elections that promised to build safe, welcoming and effective schools for all students while rejecting candidates carrying the MAGA education agenda.

Monica Eggert, a special education support professional at Rochester Alternative Learning Center, is the 2025-26 Education Minnesota Education Support Professional of the Year.

Minnesota teachers will explore how to responsibly integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms and support students facing mental health challenges, among dozens of other topics at the 2025 Minnesota Educator Academy on Thursday at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. 

Education Minnesota welcomed the announcement by Gov. Tim Walz that he would seek reelection in 2026.

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.