District leaders say that they have verified incidents in which children, parents and school staff members have been pulled into vehicles by masked agents or detained in other ways.

School districts also report that federal agents have been staging for their enforcement activities in school parking lots, and federal agents have detained and pepper sprayed people on school grounds.

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The district said it was acting ���out of an abundance of caution.���

The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

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Last week, the school board said it would write the guidelines into district procedure, essentially codifying what up until now was advice to school administrators on everything from using preferred student pronouns at school to providing comfortable changing rooms and bathrooms for kids.

The move comes as the U.S Department of Education releases updates to Title IX, a federal regulation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities.

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The district is fully staffed, thanks to teachers it has hired from abroad, specifically from the Philippines. Red Lake has hired 11 educators from the Philippines.

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But a deeper look at the data finds the state���s published results were flawed and that graduation rates are actually rising.

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In Minneapolis and St. Paul, though, plunging enrollment over decades has created a much deeper problem. Minnesota���s school funding system is based on a per-pupil formula, which means when kids choose to learn elsewhere, the thousands of dollars in state and federal funds that go with them, is spent elsewhere.

Minneapolis school board members on Tuesday will meet to talk about how to close a $110 million deficit. It���s a situation that makes it extremely difficult to cut costs fast enough as kids leave and don���t come back.

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The shutdown seemed like a fun one-off, a few bonus days home to start the spring. School buildings were supposed to reopen on March 30.

���We were all like, ���Yeah! We get an extra break,��� said Rae, who as an eighth grader was in her first year at Red Wing High School. ���We were so excited to have like a few extra days to be out of school ��� ���Yay! We get to completely play hooky!������

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The survey, which was conducted by the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, shows districts face more than $300 million in shortfalls for the 2024-25 school year, with����centered in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools.

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The Department of Education website doesn���t include information about the nature of the Title VI investigation, other than saying it started Jan. 30 and is focused on ���national origin discrimination involving religion.���

But it comes after two Edina High School students filed a federal complaint late last year, alleging the school district discriminated against them when they were suspended for using a pro-Palestinian chant during a walkout to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

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The fuel savings are a benefit, the buses are not as noisy, and they align with the community-wide focus on clean energy, Superintendent Shane Monson said.

The buses require additional driver training because the electric vehicles accelerate and brake differently from a bus with an internal combustion engine. The electric buses can���t be used on out-of-town trips for extra-curricular activities because of limited charging options in rural areas, said Monson.

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