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Walz, Minnesota Department of Ed Push for Students’ Return to Schools

The Governor announced Wednesday a plan to have elementary schools at least partially open in January.

December 16, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Governor Tim Walz signed Executive Order 20-82 to implement Minnesota’s Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-21 School Year. This plan uses a localized, data-driven approach that allows school districts and charter schools to operate in a learning model that is responsive the prevalence of COVID-19 cases in their community. The plan prioritizes safe learning for […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz, pandemic, schools

STMA School District Announces Learning Model Changes for Elementary Students

The district's grade 5 through 12 students went full distance learning this week.

December 3, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Surging COVID-19 cases have again forced St. Michael-Albertville School District’s leaders to change learning models for students around the community. As STMA’s students in grades 5 through 12 adapted to full distance learning this week, Superintendent Ann Marie Foucault said changes will be coming on Dec. 10 for all students in grades kindergarten through 4. […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, distance learning, hybrid, learning models, schools

St. Michael-Albertville Schools Switching Secondary Schools to Full Distance Learning

Students in grades 5 through 12, which had started the year in a hybrid model, will stay home as COVID numbers continue to climb.

November 12, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

St. Michael-Albertville School District will join the long list of community schools making a shift to keep students home from school buildings during this latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Ann-Marie Foucault, Superintendent of STMA Schools, said the District came to the conclusion this week that the coronavirus illness was having too great of […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, learning models, schools, STMA

COVID Numbers Skyrocketing in Wright County as Fall Wave Hits

Schools, families adapt as coronavirus cases are hitting new highs all over Minnesota.

November 10, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Colder weather, large gatherings – including weddings, and school events have led to a large increase in COVID-19 cases around the Minnesota, and Wright County is breaking records with new cases. Over the last two weeks alone, more than 1,000 people have tested positive for the disease associated with the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz, schools

ISD 728 Announces Model Change, Elementary Students to Hybrid in November

The COVID curve continues to push area schools to a new brink.

October 27, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

With the school district’s communities now breaking barriers put in place last August by the Minnesota Department of Health, ISD 728 leaders decided it could no longer put off a change in its learning model, according to a letter shared by staff Monday, Oct. 26. ISD 728 Superintendent Dan Bittman made the announcement via a […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, Dan Bittman, ISD 728, schools

BREAKING: Minnesota School Buildings Closed through End of School Year

Districts will continue to educate students - more than 900,000 statewide - via Distance Learning practices put in place since March 30.

April 23, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Tim Walz

Calling it a “heartbreaking” decision, Gov. Tim Walz issued Executive Order 20-41, ordering all school buildings in Minnesota remained closed through the end of the 2019-2020 school year. “This is not something that will define you,” he said to the Class of 2020, a group of thousands expected to graduate in mere weeks. “Instead, you […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota, schools

Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Voters Approve Levy

Early voting, Buffalo community lead to referendum victory.

November 6, 2019 By Mike Schoemer

Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose voters gave the nod to a tax increase to fund students and classes at the district with a levy approval on the district’s second try. The BHM School District asked residents to increase the district’s  operating levy by $750 per student (this is not the tax impact amount for residents–See that chart here). Funds […]

Tagged With: Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose, levy, referendum, schools

BREAKING: Wright County Schools Closed Through Thursday

January 28, 2019 By Mike Schoemer

UPDATE: All three districts have now announced schools will be closed through Thursday, Jan. 31. School will resume Friday, Feb. 1 **** ISD 728 in Elk River, STMA Schools and Monticello Schools have all announced this afternoon they will be closed Tuesday AND Wednesday, Jan. 29 and 30, due to the extremely dangerous temperatures hitting […]

Tagged With: canceled, closed, schools

BREAKING: STMA Schools, ISD 728 Delayed

Schools will open two hours late on Monday, April 16.

April 15, 2018 By Mike Schoemer

St. Michael-Albertville Schools and St. Michael Catholic School will be delayed two hours, Monday, April 16th.Kids Play and Just for Kids will meet as usual, so students will be welcome at the usual buildings at normal drop-off times in the morning.Bright Beginnings and ECFE will not have morning classes. No am ECSE classes. ISD 728 […]

Tagged With: April blizzard, delayed, schools, snow

Area High Schools Plan Walkouts Wednesday, March 14

March 13, 2018 By Mike Schoemer

Several Wright County schools will be joining high schools across the nation in a silent demonstration against gun violence Wednesday, March 14. The walkout, planned for 10 a.m., is on the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stone Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It is the nation’s worst school shooting since Columbine, […]

Tagged With: #Enough, schools, violence, Walkout

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