Plan: Close three Rochester schools to save costs
ROCHESTER, Minn.—To meet a budget shortfall, Rochester Schools Superintendent Kent Pekel proposed closing three [...]
Winona High combatants have bruised knuckles
WINONA, Minn. – Police were called to Winona High School where a 15-year-old boy [...]
Rochester teen pulls knife in school fight
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A student brawl at Century High School was broken up by [...]
Sword-wielding man prompts school lockdown
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. -- The 2,400-student Chippewa Valley High School was put on lockdown [...]
Math teacher-coach: Winona Schools teacher of year
Oom pah pah. Scott Halverson, in orange, is holding down the Winhawk balloons at [...]
Marketing lessons now for high school tech students
WINONA, Minn. – An industrial tech teacher, Jerry Benedict, has been awarded a $5,000 [...]
Cops: Charges ahead for bad Plainview school acts
PLAINVIEW, Minn. – Criminal charges can be expected next week for misbehavior in the [...]
School Board truncates spring classes
WINONA, Minn. -- The Winona School Board approved an early end to the school year for [...]
School cancels football game following death
ROCHESTER, Minn. – In remembrance of Century High School student Davin Tukua, who died [...]
Plainview School Board bars public from meeting
Playing loose with the law. The School Board met two hours in secret [...]
Plan: Cut week from Winona school year
WINONA, Minn. – School Superintendent Brad Berzinski proposed shortening the school year for the [...]
Dad knocks kid off feet in Paul Giel bleachers
WINONA, Minn. – Police escorted an angry father out of the Winona High School [...]
Plainview disciplining homecoming troublemakers
PLAINVIEW, Minn. -- School authorities are taking “corrective action” against students whose misbehavior led [...]
Plainview homecoming events axed: Why? Misbehavior
PLAINVIEW, Minn. – The Plainview school superintendent cancelled the high school homecoming parade and [...]
Misbehavior reported in Middle School bus line
WINONA, Minn. -- A Winona Middle School boy slapped a fellow student in the [...]
12-year-olds in school scuffle; one breaks arm
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona Middle School sixth-grader broke an arm after being pushed [...]
Expert: First Amendment supports gay flag at Gale High
MADISON, Wis. – The Galesville School Board may have gotten itself into s pickle [...]
Walz to lawmakers: Clarify School policing limits
ST PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz is hopeful for an interim solution to [...]
Police quitting school duty: “Legally risky”
ST. PAUL, Minn. – School-based police officers have been withdrawn from at least 40 [...]
Maple Gove yanks officers off school duty
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – Maple Grove Police Chief Eric Werner pulled his school-based officers [...]
Gale High ruling: No gay flag, no any flag
GALESVILLE, Wis. – The governing board for Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Schools backed a high school principal’s [...]
Lost Winona school bus: Bad judgments compounded
WINONA, Minn. -- Nobody bothered to call police that a Winona school bus went [...]
First Student mystery: How do you lose a school bus?
WINONA, Minn. -- A tracking system that the First Student school-bus company has on [...]
Mom: Child mercilessly bullied on late, late school bus
WINONA, Minn. -- A Winona school bus driver got lost on the first day [...]
Fifth-grader with knife: “I’ll stab him to death”
Winona Middle School. On Homer Road. 650 students and 48 teachers. Grades 5 [...]
Winona Mall negotiations now at $4.3 million
WINONA, Minn. – The price tag for the Winona Mall has dropped. Sources said [...]
“Bubba” honored for 40 years school service
WINONA Minn. – In the Winona school system’s directory he’s listed as Robert Muras. [...]
Winona schools stocking opioid antidote
WINONA, Minn. – In compliance with a new state law, Winona schools each will [...]
New Melrose school bus to hum, buzz
MELROSE, Wis. – The Melrose-Mindoro School District is acquiring the first electric school bus [...]
Legal opinion: School physical policing holds “OK but”
ST. PAUL, Minn. – School police officers can use force to restore discipline as [...]
Walz sees exceptions on school policing limits
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz says he’s examined the updated state school [...]
How far can school police go to break up fights?
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. – Police expressed concern about limits in the 2023 revised state [...]
What are options to finish HVAC school projects?
WINONA, Minn. – The finance director for Winona Schools, Sarah Slaby, is examining possibilities [...]
Voters on Houston school projects: No and no
HOUSTON, Minn. – Voters in the Houston School District smacked down a pair of [...]
New Winona High principal from Wisconsin
WINONA, Minn. – The principal at Black River High School, Luke Madsen, has been [...]
Cotter assumes control of SMU arts conservatory
Learning dance. Most classes are by age groups. Enrollment open to whole community. Private [...]
Winona teacher to Spain to explain immersion project
WINONA, Minn. – A Spanish teacher at Winona High School, Susan Larsen, returned to [...]
Winona High principal’s departure called “amicable”
WINONA, Minn.-- The principal of Winona High School, Heather Fitzloff, who has been on [...]
Pro-social behavior progress in Winona schools cited
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona school district’s three elementary schools have been commended for [...]
New Winona schools chief inks contract
WINONA, Minn. – The Winna School Board and its new superintendent, Brad Berzinski, agreed [...]