Minnesota high school students wishing to enroll in Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) courses for the 2016-17 school year must inform their school by May 30. The Minnesota Legislature in 2014 mandated that school districts provide “up-to-date” information on PSEO on their websites as well as distribute information materials to students and families.
Education
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Our kids need balance to face what lies ahead
Just until a few days ago, Don Samuels was a name that you didn’t mention among North High supporters. Why? He was quoted as having stating that North High should be burned down, but not many knew the context of that statement.
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Is your child being bullied?
Several years ago, if a kid was being bullied, society dismissed it as child’s play.
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Choosing the right school for your child
As parents, we want what’s best for our kids. There are many factors that play a role in deciding what school is best for them.
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The parent is the first teacher
The future struggle for the African is a cognitive one. Cognition is a word that includes two words “with + knowledge.”
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Message to Parents Introduction
Welcome, MSR readers, to our latest effort to keep the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder’s journalism focused on the most critical issues affecting our community.
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Tech group draws students into ‘smart zones’
On Friday, January 8, Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) celebrated its 11th year with a graduation and awards ceremony emceed by Dawn Stevens of FOX 9 news. The theme of the event: transformational leadership.
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New education act will require more parental vigilance
This has been a hard year for poor children and children of color in a gridlocked and cantankerous Congress. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replacing the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted after gutting a strong federal role in education policy designed to protect these children and jeopardizing their opportunity for a fair and adequate education to prepare them for work in our globalizing economy.
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What went wrong with CSI? Part II
It is often said that the best of intentions can result in miserable failure. Last week, the MSR examined the Community Standards Initiative (CSI), its beginnings, and its eventual failure to meet promised goals.
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What went wrong with CSI?
The Community Standards Initiative (CSI), a community-based program to assist Black students, initially struck many as a novel idea with potential. Community leaders felt an urgent call to advance culturally specific solutions based on their experience.
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Preparing a workforce for the future
A 2012 Wilder Foundation research report forecast that 900,000-plus jobs will be need to be filled in the Twin Cities over the next 10 years. The Minnesota Demographic Center also points out that a five percent labor force growth is expected to occur annually through 2045.
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Who will lead Minneapolis’ Public Schools?
Minneapolis Public Schools is on the search for a new superintendent of schools.
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College students, families to feel loss of Perkins Loans
WASHINGTON —Thousands of college students locally — and more than 500,000 in cities and towns across America — have been stripped of more than a billion dollars in aid following the Senate’s refusal to renew the nation’s oldest loan program for college students.
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Number of Black teachers rapidly declines as minority student population increases
The minority population has grown tremendously since the year 2000. According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population growth is due to U.S. births–and Asian population growth is due primarily to immigration since 2012.
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Program gears students up for higher education
G.E.A.R. U.P. (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program) was formed and put into place in 1993 by then-president Bill Clinton and Congressman Chaka Fattah, to assist first-generation, low-income, and under-served youth to get ready for post-secondary educational opportunities.
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HistoryMakers bring Black role models to schools
This Friday, more than 400 Black role models will visit students at schools in 67 cities across 32 states as part of The HistoryMakers Back to School Day.
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Feds launch pilot college program for prisoners
This summer, the Department of Education announced an experimental Second Chance Pell Pilot program to examine how such prison education programs could be continued and expanded.
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The MSR responds: Black people must decide what’s best for Black people
We did not speak well of Better Ed, which he acknowledges as “an American Experiment spin-off of which we’re very proud,” so his disagreement with us is quite understandable.
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Racial distrust and educational freedom
To be clear, the leadership of Better Ed — which is an American Experiment spin-off of which we’re very proud — is profoundly interested and concerned about the well-being of all students, particularly those flailing in often failing school systems.
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Desegregation linked to closing achievement gap
Year after year in measure after measure, Black, Latino, and Native American students trail their White peers in educational outcomes. These gaps were at their lowest in 1988, the same year public schools hit peak integration levels – and long-term data shows that this was no coincidence.