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Autism magnet program to stay at Lewis & Clark Elementary

FARGO – A magnet school program for children with autism will remain at Lewis & Clark Elementary, a Fargo School Board committee was told Monday.

Eagles Center Head Start classrooms won’t move to Agassiz

FARGO – Some of south Fargo’s Head Start students will have a new home this fall. But it won’t be the Agassiz school building.

Benefit to help Fargo boy, family as he fights rare disease

FARGO – A full third of Josiah Gillen’s life has been filled with hospitals, biopsies, tests and diets that threaten to suck the fun out of a 6-year-old’s life.

• Tom and Rachel Gillen and family

Annual Yearly Progress failure rates rise in North Dakota

Most schools in Fargo, West Fargo fail to meet all proficiency standards
FARGO – Nearly three-quarters of North Dakota’s public school districts – including Fargo and West Fargo – failed to meet federal Annual Yearly Progress requirements, the state Department of Public Instruction announced Friday.

MSUM graduate credits teachers with boost to academic excellence

MOORHEAD - In just a few short years, the arc of Joshua Gates’ academic life has gone from meh to marvelous.

• Joshua Gates
• Margaret Saukey, Joshua Gates’ adviser

New state funding formula, sequestration leave Fargo School District budget unclear

FARGO – The budget picture is unclear for the Fargo School District as district staff wrestle with trying to determine how a new state K-12 funding formula and federal sequestration cuts fit in with facilities planning, teacher contract talks, building maintenance and other needs in the budget for the 2013-14 school year.

Moorhead considers all-day kindergarten this fall

MOORHEAD – All-day kindergarten could come to Moorhead School District as soon as this fall, if the Legislature and governor cement a deal to fund the initiative starting in 2014.

Mothers to many: Big broods in F-M region say a packed house no problem

FARGO - When Karla Wiegrefe met her husband, Jeff, 22 years ago, he was her German tutor at Dana College in Blair, Neb. They fell in love. He popped the question, and she said yes.

• Wiegrefe family
• Riewer family
• Brotherson family
• Rivers family
• Wolsky family

Moorhead-area backers elated by House vote

MOORHEAD – Members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and their supporters are celebrating the Minnesota House’s 75-59 vote Thursday to approve a bill that would allow same-sex weddings beginning this summer.

• ‘Freedom for everyone’: Minn. House passes gay marriage bill
• Both sides of gay marriage debate pack Capitol

Baesler says ND needs more STEM education

WEST FARGO – North Dakota needs more STEM schools and a way to expand and integrate that style of learning into high schools, the state’s superintendent of public instruction said Wednesday.

• Tour of STEM Center

Columns

K-12 Notebook: Area students raise funds for charities

Thanksgiving may have passed on the calendar, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to be thankful about when it comes to the area’s youth.

K-12 Notebook: West Fargo teachers earn technology grants

Two groups of West Fargo teachers are among the North Dakota recipients of 2011 Teachers and Technology grants presented by the Qwest Foundation and the North Dakota Educational Technology Council last week.