Sauk Rapids-Rice

A group of Sauk Rapids-Rice students took top honors at a cooking and restaurant competition. The Hospitality Minnesota Education Foundation hosted the event in St. Paul.

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The Sauk Rapids-Rice school district needs to trim nearly $760,000 from next year's budget. The cuts are necessary because voters in the district voted against a proposed operating levy last November.

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Voters in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district are being asked to go to the polls on November 8th. The district has put two operating levy questions on the ballot.

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Two area school districts are hosting public meetings on their operating levies.

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Enrollment is up for the St. Cloud metro area schools. For just the high schools, Sauk Rapid-Rice has passed Apollo making it the second largest high school in the metro behind Tech.

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Voters in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district will be going to the polls in November. Last (Monday) night the school board approved putting two operating levy questions on the ballot.

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Operating levies will be the main topic of discussion at two area school board meetings tonight (Monday). Sartell-St. Stephen has a $1.2 million levy that's set to expire this year. Meanwhile, the Sauk Rapids-Rice school board will also vote tonight on whether to put a $938,000 operating levy on the November ballot.

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Sauk Rapids-Rice is one of several school districts across the state considering asking their voters to raise their own taxes. Sauk Rapids-Rice is one of just 36 districts in the state that doesn't currently have an operating levy.

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The high schools around the St. Cloud area are all hosting graduation ceremonies in the comings days. St. Cloud Apollo has their commencement at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at the St. Cloud Civic Center. Seniors at St. Cloud Tech will get their diplomas tomorrow (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. also at the Civic Center.

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A new survey suggests residents in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district would be willing to increase their own property taxes. However, a majority of the respondents either work in the district or have students in the district. In general, 65% of the participants supported an increase in property taxes to maintain class sizes, provide additional transportation, and update student technology.

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