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Fargo School District presents pay proposals to teachers

FARGO – Negotiators for the Fargo School District presented two pay proposals Monday in an effort to keep teacher contract talks from sliding into impasse.

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

Columns

K12 notebook: Moorhead teen named Scholar of Distinction

Trevor Larson of Moorhead High School was recently honored as a Scholar of Distinction at the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minn.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Dickinson students tops in auto competition

Two Dickinson (N.D.) High School students were crowned North Dakota’s top high school auto technicians on Thursday. Jared Meduna and Austin Tysver won the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills State Finals in West Fargo.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 notebook: Moorhead High speech team tops at state tourney

Moorhead students won gold medals in Class AA of the Minnesota State High School League state tournament recently at Chanhassen High School.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 notebook: Scholarships to go to students for flood effort

Forty students from Cass and Clay counties will be awarded $1,000 college tuition scholarships Monday at the Fargo City Commission meeting during a presentation ceremony for the “Scholarships for Sandbags” program.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: South High director receives state theater honor

Steve Stark, a Fargo South High School director, has been named the 2011 Director of the Year for the Communication, Speech and Theatre Association of North Dakota.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Moorhead elementary wins Healthy School prize

Moorhead’s Ellen Hopkins Elementary School won a $3,000 grand prize in the Healthy School Makeover Contest of the Fuel Up to Play 60 “Show Your Spirit” Challenge.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Area teams compete in Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl

Teams from five area high schools in the Lakes Country Service Cooperative Region IV will advance to the Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl meet April 7-8 at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Moorhead Catholic school wins national award

St. Joseph’s School in Moorhead has been named a “2011 Catholic Schools for Tomorrow National Award” winner. The school received the award for innovative restructuring to add seventh and eighth grades, said Stacia Erdmann, the development and stewardship coordinator.

K-12 education notebook: Moorhead student a semifinalist in essay contest

Jordan Slaughter, a Moorhead High School student, is one of 100 semifinalists in “A Legacy of Leadership: The Ronald Reagan Essay Contest,” sponsored by the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 notebook: Fargo students raise money for boy hit by bus

Students at Fargo’s Lincoln Elementary School showed their character recently by holding a series of fundraisers dubbed “Crazy for Isaiah” to help 6-year-old Isaiah Northington and his family.

• Helmut Schmidt