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Wait, what? Concordia University, St. Paul, is dropping tuition costs hoping to get more to consider college
It's something you don't hear about often, but St. Paul's Concordia College making a bold move. They are cutting tuition costs for undergraduates. "We know one of the realities is sticker shock," says school president Brian Friedrich.
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
Warrants: Daycare received $11.8M in CCAP funds despite early reports of suspicious activity
Attendance records and questions about program eligibility are at the center of an investigation into a St. Paul daycare that received nearly $12 million in taxpayer funds from 2017 to 2026.
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
New program connecting Minnesota high schoolers to skilled trade jobs hopes to close industry gap
CBS News
Minnesota college dropping its tuition back to what it was 20 years ago
hoodline.com
St. Paul Daycare Took $11.8M in CCAP Funds Despite Years of Fraud Warnings
A shuttered St. Paul daycare collected more than $11.8 million in taxpayer-funded childcare assistance between 2017 and 2026, even though state and nonprofit compliance workers flagged suspicious activity at the site as far back as 2018. Newly unsealed search warrants describe investigators finding just five children in attendance during a raid on Diamond Daycare, located on Lexington Parkway North, despite the center's outsized billing to Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program.
CBS Minnesota
Minnesota's largest districts kick off school year
It's back to school Tuesday for tens of thousands of students across the Twin Cities. Some schools did start early this year, but the state's biggest school districts — Anoka-Hennepin, Minneapolis and St. Paul — are open Tuesday morning.
Sahan Journal
Rooted in culture: St. Paul launches Afrocentric magnet school in historic Rondo neighborhood
Bright murals and warm hugs greeted students on the first day of St. Paul’s Benjamin E. Mays Afrocentric Magnet School. The sounds of the Jacksons singing their disco-funk hit “Shake Your Body” filled the atrium. As yellow buses rolled up alongside the school, one child strode off the bus with particular confidence.
mprnews.org
Photos: As summer ends, Minnesota students head back to school
The first day of school for many Minnesotans took place on Tuesday. MPR News visited Duluth, Mankato, Coon Rapids and St. Paul to check in on how things were starting off. At Benjamin E. Mays Afrocentric Magnet School in St. Paul, district superintendent Stacie L. Stanley greeted students with high-fives as they exited their buses. Photos of civil rights leaders in the building decorated the walls as teachers and other staff members showed them the way to their classrooms.
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U of M makes ChatGPT Edu available to students in Twin Cities; UMR is not offering the program
(ABC 6 News) — The University in Minnesota is rolling out the ChatGPT Edu program for students in the Twin Cities. ABC 6 News reached out to the University of Minnesota-Rochester to see if the program is being rolled out at UMR. When asked about it, an official said that it is not currently available […]
fox9.com
Dunwoody College brings trades education to high schools
Dunwoody College of Technology President Scott Stallman joins us to discuss Dunwoody Immersive, a new dual-credit program bringing college-level skilled trades education into Minnesota high schools through online learning, mixed reality and virtual reality labs.
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
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unearththevoyage.com
This Minnesota Cooking School Once Hosted Jacques Pépin For Just Eight Students
Most cooking classes put you in a room with strangers and hand you a knife. What happened at one Minneapolis cooking school was something entirely different. A legendary French chef, known to millions through his cookbooks and television appearances, once stood in a small kitchen teaching a group of just eight lucky students. That moment captures everything worth knowing about this place and why food lovers across the Twin Cities keep coming back for more.