Take KARE of Your Education

Tough problem: How best to evaluate teachers

3:13 PM, Apr 14, 2012

A group of teachers, administrators, parents and others has been quietly working on a new tool that will be used statewide starting in a couple of years.

Budget cuts may shorten Burnsville school year

7:15 PM, Apr 12, 2012

The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school system may cut 17 days from academic calendar

New site to calculate potential student loan debt

12:34 PM, Apr 11, 2012

A new government website offers prospective college students a way to figure out how much they could owe after graduating from a particular school.

Financial Literacy Month: The cost of higher education

9:47 AM, Apr 10, 2012

April is financial literacy month, and the week of April 9-13 is designated as higher education financial literacy week.

Dayton vetoes GOP bill on Minn. school IOUs

10:06 AM, Apr 5, 2012

Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a Republican-crafted bill that would have repaid state IOUs to Minnesota public schools more quickly.

MN college students feeling effects of $1 trillion student loan debt

6:16 PM, Apr 3, 2012

When the federal loan program started more than four decades ago, it was supposed to help students. Now, it's hurting them and is expected to get worse. Student loan debt has gone over the $1 trillion mark, surpassing credit card and auto loan debt.

Robotics invade U of M for MN First Competition

7:12 AM, Mar 30, 2012

The Minnesota FIRST Robotics Competition got underway Friday at Williams Arena in Minneapolis.

More Minnesota students are learning Chinese

6:33 PM, Mar 29, 2012

Students in Minnesota studying the Chinese language has increased since 2000. Currently, close to 6,000 students are enrolled in a Chinese language program.

Como Park H.S. students get crash course on legal rights

4:41 PM, Mar 26, 2012

Imagine you were placed in a country so foreign to you that you have to seriously ask if it alright for a police officer to just "take you."

Students at Lyndale Community School in Minneapolis walk to school on the walking bus to promote community and good health.

Students hopping on board 'walking bus' at Minneapolis school

2:22 PM, Mar 21, 2012

Lyndale Community School is embracing its "walking bus" which started a few years back and has been growing ever since. Every day, the "bus" operates on a set route, picking up more kids along the way. Four different routes operate on Friday.

'Farm to School' aims to boost nutrition and local economy

12:23 PM, Mar 20, 2012

The idea of buying local is making its way into schools. It's a new initiative called "Farm To School" which is aimed at getting fresh foods to students, while also boosting the local economy.