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Parents and supporters of Guardian Angels Catholic School are hosting a prayer event on Tuesday, March 2.
The Chaska Speech Team competed in the annual Eastview Speech Tournament this past Saturday.
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It’s not every day a school district accepts a $2.5 million donation.
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Following updates to the state's Safe Learning Plan last week, plans are underway for Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools secondary students to transition to an in-person learning model, according to an email from Superintendent Teri Staloch sent to staff and families Feb. 23.
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“I feel very relieved now.”
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Eastern Carver County Schools will go four days a week for grades 6-12 beginning March 22. Students will attend in-person on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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Chaska High School released its Dean’s List for the first semester of the 2020-21 school year. Students on Dean’s List 1 have a 3.667-4.0 grade point average. Students on Dean’s List 2 have a 3.0-3.666 grade point average.
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Eastern Carver County Schools was announced Feb. 24 as one of 11 schools or organizations across the state of Minnesota to receive a 2021 Youth Skills Training grant. The partnership works to develop and implement paid-learning opportunities for students 16 years of age and older.
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If Eastern Carver County Schools taxpayers won't vote for a future referendum, what are they willing to sacrifice, pondered School Board Member Jenny Stone on Feb. 22.
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Hundreds of Eastern Carver County Schools staff are scheduled to be vaccinated at a Friday, Feb. 26 clinic in Waconia.
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After at least a decade of falling enrollment, Guardian Angels Catholic School is closing at the end of this school year, according to a statement on its website.
The Chaska Speech team hosted its annual tournament Feb. 20. The team hosted 15 area teams in a virtual format.
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Students will be welcomed back to in-person hybrid learning this month, District 112 Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams said in a statement Wednesday.
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Chanhassen High School released its Dean’s List for the first semester of the 2020-21 school year. Students on Dean’s List 1 have a 3.667-4.0 grade point average. Students on Dean’s List 2 have a 3.0-3.666 grade point average.
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For Deb Pauly, the Jordan School Board chair and past president of Minnesota School Board Association, working in education isn’t her day job.
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Robin Gordon described her first 30 days in District 112 as a “very exciting, collaborative, amazing opportunity.” The new equity and inclusion director is ready to get to work, she said at a Feb. 8 school board workshop presentation.
The Chaska Speech Team competed at the 60th Annual Duluth Denfeld Rotary Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 6.
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Shakopee students in grades 6 through 12 will return to hybrid learning on Tuesday, Feb. 16, as new county COVID cases per 10,000 residents hover around 19.
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Could a new bus garage, a Carver Elementary building addition and much-needed improvements to Chanhassen Elementary be coming soon in District 112?
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Members of the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools Board of Education and administrative team met virtually with local legislators Feb. 1 to discuss the district’s legislative platform and initiatives.
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In a typical school year, authors and illustrators Trisha Speed Shaskan and Stephen Shaskan would visit between 30 and 40 elementary schools across Minnesota.
The Chaska Speech Team competed at the annual Eden Prairie Eagle Invitational on Jan. 30.
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Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 was the beginning of the first scheduled five-days-a-week in-person learning schedule since March 2020, for students in grades pre-kindergarten to fifth grade in Eastern Carver County Schools.
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Staff at Guardian Angels Catholic School, a 100-plus-year-old K-8 school in Chaska, are discussing whether to close the building in the midst of financial difficulty caused by debt, according to the business administrator, principal and priest.
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What career would you like to pursue? It’s a question every high-schooler hears as they near the end of their general education.
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One of the first challenges Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams championed upon her arrival to Eastern Carver County Schools in July 2020 was asking principals throughout the district to identify the students who struggled the most with distance learning at the end of the 2019-20 school year.
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Many metro teachers who were supposed to be prioritized for vaccines were placed on wait lists after schools sent out far more invites than a mass vaccination event will be able to fill and some recipients shared the sign-up information with colleagues.
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Halfway into his four-year term, Governor Tim Walz announced Jan. 25 that after two years of conversations with educators, school leaders, education organizations, students, and families, it is time to direct Minnesota in a new direction.
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Envisioning a post-pandemic world for Minnesota school districts doesn't necessarily mean an end to virtual learning.
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A proposed referendum that would establish a tech levy for Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools will once again be put on hold, after the board of education decided Monday night to table the issue due to the pandemic.
A proposed referendum that would establish a tech levy for Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools will once again be put on hold, after the board of education decided Monday night to table the issue due to the pandemic.
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When the first round of vaccinations were offered up to school staff and child-care workers earlier this month, let's just say area school districts had to be picky in who received them.
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As the deadline for kindergarten enrollment approaches, the Jordan Public School District has found creative ways to reach new students and their families.
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Secondary students within the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District will now begin their rolling start back to the hybrid learning model on Feb. 8, according to an email from Superintendent Dr. Teri Staloch sent to parents Jan. 22.
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The Prior Lake-Savage Area School District saved nearly $173,000 in energy cost avoidance over the last school year through energy efficient buildings, mechanical renovations and the PLSAS Operations Department’s monitoring of system controls, according to a press release from the district.
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Laurie Schmidt always knew she wanted to be a teacher.
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Jordan Public Schools students will transition back to hybrid and in-person learning models beginning Tuesday, Jan. 19, according to an update provided by Superintendent Ranae Case Evenson at a Jan. 4 Jordan School Board meeting.
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District 112 has released its "Safe Return to Learn" plan for students in pre-K through 12th grade.
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Editor's note: The following article was submitted by Shakopee Public Schools.
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The Jan. 11 organizational meeting of the Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board began with the welcoming of a familiar face and two new ones to the board.
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Two Eastern Carver County school board members were sworn in during a virtual organizational and workshop meeting Jan. 11.
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Secondary students within the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District will begin their return to school in the hybrid learning model starting Feb. 4, according to an email from Superintendent Dr. Teri Staloch sent to parents Friday afternoon.
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Lisa Sayles-Adams reflected back on her interviews for the Eastern Carver County Schools superintendent opening.
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The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District is preparing to bring elementary students back to school next month.
Nominations are being accepted for the District 112 Foundation’s 2021 Teacher of the Year.
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Shakopee’s littlest students will return to in-person learning in the coming weeks.
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The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed day-to-day life including how students are receiving their education.
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Alan Wright and his family were at home this winter, doing distance learning and working, when he noticed something strange.
Governor Tim Walz’s Dec. 16 announcement allows elementary students to return to classrooms mid-January using a rolling start and for the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District this means K-5 students will soon be in-person learning five days a week.
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Eastern Carver County Schools has developed a four-phase back-to-school plan after winter break, Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams told families in an email Wednesday. All District 112 students will return to distance learning on Monday, Jan. 4 with tiered plans as followed.
