Minnesota’s first statewide K-12 health standards were approved Tuesday after an earlier version was rejected in July. The standards cover topics including sexual health, mental health, nutrition and ...

A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...

The Detroit Lakes School Board voted to remove rainbows from district schools this summer, angering many in the community and sowing confusion over its legality and implementation. This week, the boar...

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the CEOs of Feeding America and Second Harvest Heartland about how to help ensure everyone has access to the food they need.

In recent years there have been concerns about whether the monarch butterfly was a threatened species. Thanks to good weather, and an increase in their food, the pollinator’s numbers increased in 2026...

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

Minneapolis Public Schools leaders on Tuesday presented three proposals aimed at addressing the district’s budget issues.

A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.

Analysis of Medicaid data finds applied behavior analysis — an unproven, even dangerous therapy — turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Adam Abdullah has no criminal record, but the government is holding him at a military prison set up for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Three Pulitzer winners, a Booker Prize winner, two Booker longlisted authors this year, and a number whose works have been adapted for the screen are among the authors with new books out this month.

Harper Moyski was one of two students killed in the Annunciation Catholic Church and School mass shooting nearly one year ago. Since then, her younger sister Quinn and Harper’s three best friends have...

The lost funding is roughly enough to pay 35 teachers for a school year.

School staff at Annunciation have spent the past year working to meet the needs of their students and their community. They say mental health support has been critical to healing.

A union is urging parents and teachers to do back-to-school shopping elsewhere, citing Target’s decision not to call for an end to the surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities earlier this year.

St. Paul Mayor Kaholy Her's proposed budget would shut down Dayton’s Bluff library on the city’s east side. Maree Lee and Kmari Watson come to the library almost every day and consider it a second hom...

MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about how the school community’s children and families are healing and where their push to prevent gun violence stands.

School staff at Annunciation have spent the past year working to meet the needs of their students and their community. They say mental health support has been critical to healing.

Some studies suggest the costs of back-to-school shopping are higher this year than last year.

Omaha requested 40 pairs of the gloves for just under $66,000 in 2025.

Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.

Maryland has one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country. But privacy advocates allege data brokers are violating the law by selling data to police and federal immigration agencies.

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

Bookstores, publishers, authors and local organizations will be present for the fair. Tickets are free with registration.

Companies linked to Sekou Dukuly received $36 million in taxpayer money over the past decade to care for disabled adults in Minnesota group homes — despite multiple residents dying and repeated findin...

The Hechinger Report is creating a print edition, and wants young artists to contribute. Find out more here. This spring, I spoke to a mom in suburban Washington, D.C., who was growing increasingly worried about a lack of filters on her kids’ school devices. During class this year, her kids watched Kendrick Lamar videos on YouTube, she told me. One came home knowing the words to a semaglutide commercial. Parents at the school shared concerns that their fourth graders regularly played a game called BitLife, a text-based life simulation game created in 2018.

A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.

On July 13, 2026, The Grayzone reported that their editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal was detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. upon return from  a reporting trip to Iran to cover…

Suni Lee is making a run at a third Olympics. The America gymnastics star announced she is returning to the sport on Tuesday, about two years out from the Los Angeles Games.

At the current pace, each state would see a federal auditor just once every 25 years. Recent monitoring reports have found a host of problems in how states support students with disabilities.

State regulators say the facility failed to protect clients from harm, allowed neglect and used unnecessary restraints. The program can appeal.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. Explore the many ways we describe our heritage and ourselves.

The flood of federal immigration agents into the Twin Cities faded slowly over the spring. But in suburban Columbia Heights, educators, students and community members say the trauma lingers.

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.