Minnesota’s Race to the Top application was not among the first-round finalists announced by the U.S. Department of Education.
Education Minnesota has an alternative to Race to the Top plan.
Last month, the Central Falls Board of Trustees in Rhode Island fired the entire teaching faculty at Central Falls High School.
Magaly Miralles of Red Pine Elementary School in Eagan is this year’s winner of the George I. Sanchez Award.
Twenty-five community leaders met in St. Paul to choose the semifinalists from an initial field of 107 candidates.