District 742

A task force has determined the St. Cloud Area School District's religion policy is just fine. Superintendent Bruce Watkins says, while talking to residents during his retirement, he found there was a lot of misinformation about the district's policy on religion.

The St. Cloud school board is set to approve an agreement that would settle a federal civil rights investigation into the alleged harassment of Somali students at two high schools.

A tentative agreement to resolve complaints that Somali students were harassed in St. Cloud calls for the school district to report any future incidents to the U.S. Department of Education.

The superintendent of the St. Cloud schools says his district is close to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education that would end an investigation into the alleged harassment of Muslim students.

The St. Cloud Area School board will set the district's preliminary levy for 2012 during tonight's (Wednesday) meeting.

The Apollo football field could soon be getting a new scoreboard. The school board will hear a plan tonight (Wednesday) from the "Apollo Scoreboard Project LLC".

The empty former Wilson school could been turned into a child care center. The District 742 school board will vote tonight (Wednesday) whether to approve a three year lease with Little Saints Academy.

Teachers in the St. Cloud Area school district are making house calls this year. The district plans to use home visits as one way to increase parental involvement. More individual conference time and more one-on-one phone calls can also be expected.

Most students in the St. Cloud Area School District won't be getting A's, B's, and C's this year. Instead they'll be given 4's, 3's, 2's and 1's. The district has been changing over to the "Standards Based Grading System".

As the students prepare to head back to school next week, you can adopt one of the classrooms in the St. Cloud Area School District.