With music and color, energy and delight, Madison Elementary School, Blaine, celebrated its many cultures staging its fourth annual multicultural night Feb. 16.

Jane Stevenson, assistant principal at Spring Lake Park High School, is now the school’s principal.

When school bells ring in the new school year there will be more counting, more reading, more playing and more learning for more of District 11’s five- and six-year old students.

The rope arcing over his head and sweeping beneath his feet, eight-year-old Quinn Knudsvig can jump 100 times in a row before missing.

by T.W. Budig ECM Capitol reporter Legislation cracking the seniority-driven retention of teachers passed the Minnesota House Feb. 16 on a 68 to 61 vote. Rep. Branden Petersen, R-Andover, heard Democrats argue that his education legislation wasn’t ready, needed fixing. But no one arose on the House floor to argue that the teacher seniority system [...]

Some of the new board members are having problems downloading the St. Francis School District 15 documents they need to make their decisions and they want the board to consider purchasing either iPads or Netbooks for them.

Watch your step energy wasters.

Stepping to the beat of a living drum and twirling in colorfully beaded regalia, Native American dancers performed center stage in Anoka High School auditorium Feb. 10.

Evan McNair loves everything about art. His mother has bought him drawing books so he could partake in this hobby. He even created his own cartoon character.

This fall St. Francis School District 15 kindergarten students will be going to school for a much longer day.

The teachers and students of Andover High School knew that quite a few students are twins, but nobody knew the actual number.

In ongoing efforts to ensure a safe learning environment for each of its nearly 40,000 students, Anoka-Hennepin School Board members adopted a respectful learning environment-curriculum policy (RLE-CP) at their Feb. 13 meeting.

Woodcrest Elementary School was busy last week, as were the other schools in District 16, with parent-teacher conferences.

District 16 is experiencing growing pains, especially in its elementary schools. Is it a fluke or will enrollment numbers level off? No one knows.

During the past several weeks, Adams Elementary School, Coon Rapids, students cracked open books and logged minutes spent reading. As they turned pages, students earned prizes for their bookwormish ways.

Blaine City Council members are divided about sidewalks near Westwood intermediate and middle schools, even though a state grant would fund the project.

More than 50 business members from around the metropolitan area came to Anoka Technical College (ATC) Jan. 25 to find out how partnering with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system can benefit them and their employees.

Correctly spelling “linguistically” earned Philip Markose of Jackson Middle School top honors in the 2012 Anoka-Hennepin district middle school spelling bee.

With the results of their experiments neatly prepared, more than Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 600 students converged on Blaine High School for the annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Fair Jan. 28.

They formed hypotheses.

With energetic renditions of “Jubilate,” “Colors of America,” “Puttin’ On the Ritz” and more, the Blaine Cluster Honors Choir thrilled local audiences last week.

Spring Lake Park District 16 has become more energy-use savvy and, so far, has avoided costs of $22,000 for utility expenses.