SCHOOLS
Clear backpacks now required
DULUTH, Minn. — Students at Duluth Washburn Edison are required to carry clear plastic backpacks this year to go with their mandatory school uniforms.By By Jana Hollingsworth, Forum Communications Co. , August 31, 2010
West Fargo schools have no space to spare
WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) — When the school year begins Tuesday in West Fargo, space will be at a premium.August 30, 2010
Oil booms means more students
MINOT (AP) — North Dakota’s thriving energy industry is boosting the state’s economy, and its school enrollments.August 25, 2010
Fargo school financial official resigning 
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Fargo School District's top financial administrator is stepping down to take a similar job with a district in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
June 27, 2010
Students track progress of mussels
John Esbjornsson, a teacher at Jefferson High School in Alexandria, took his class to the beach Tuesday. But it wasn’t to have fun in the sun. The class is studying current environmental events such as the Gulf oil spill and the local news of zebra mussels in the lakes area.
The environmental science class is in an invasive species unit and it went out to Lake L’Homme Dieu to collect data and also listen to Nathan Olson, an invasive species specialist for the Department of Natural Resources in Fergus Falls.
By By Heather Huwe, Forum Communications Co. , June 04, 2010
Members face many issues on School Board
Voters will select two of three candidates for the rural seats on the Jamestown Public School Board at the primary election Tuesday. The candidates are incumbents Greg Allen and Mindi Grieve and challenger Shelly Jystad.
City candidates Heidi Larson, Roy Musland and Tanya Ostlie are running unopposed.
By Katie Ryan-Anderson , June 04, 2010
State says 122 N.D. schools did not meet goals
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The number of North Dakota schools failing to make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law increased during the school year that just ended.
May 28, 2010
Band has students from 10 schools
Ten schools in southwest North Dakota have banded together to form a band.
May 15, 2010
N.D. band has students from 10 schools
Ten schools in southwest North Dakota have banded together to form a band.
May 14, 2010
JC to graduate 171 students
Jamestown College will graduate 171 students this weekend. Six among them are the first to earn the college’s master’s degree.
Dallas Dockter, Brenda Jensen, Sara Taszarek, Cindy McGuire, Peg Schlenker and Scott Schmiedeberg completed the college’s Master in Education program and plan to walk the stage Saturday.
Some of the teachers said they chose the program because of its location and others because of the personal contact with fellow students and instructors as opposed to completing courses online. For Schlenker, earning the degree was always an aspiration.
By Katie Ryan-Anderson , May 07, 2010
Faltering U.S. schools are national disgrace
President Barack Obama needs to wake up to the fact that the nation’s school systems are going down the drain.
By Helen Thomas , May 06, 2010
Nohria new dean at school
Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, will become the school’s 10th dean.
May 05, 2010
Fargo schools budget in the red
A first look at the Fargo School District’s preliminary budget next year forecasts it could end up nearly $600,000 in the red.
However, Fargo School Board members vowed on Tuesday they won’t approve deficit spending.
By By Kelly Smith, Forum Communications Co. , May 05, 2010
Catholic schools official steps down
The superintendent of the Fargo Catholic Schools Network has resigned.
Fargo Roman Catholic Diocese spokeswoman Tanya Watterud said Kyle Edgerton stepped down for personal reasons. She declined to elaborate, saying it was a personnel issue.
May 05, 2010
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