st. cloud schools

Both Sauk Rapids-Rice and the St. Cloud Area School District are sending students to the state spelling bee in two weeks.

For the second time in a month, another group represented by SEIU has brought concerns over their pay and benefits to the District 742 School Board.

The St. Cloud Area School District is holding a meeting for residents in the Tech High School neighborhood on Saturday.

We now know what would happen to the historic St. Cloud Tech High School location if a referendum passes this fall to build a new high school.

Local teachers sometimes spend hundreds of their own dollars for school supplies in the classroom. In an effort to help, the District 742 Local Education and Activities Foundation (LEAF) is kicking off its "Adopt a Classroom Project" for this year.

Nine candidates are vying for four open seats on the St. Cloud area school board. The primary election is on Tuesday and the top eight vote getters will move on to the general election in November.

St. Cloud School Board Chairman Les Green was my guest on WJON today. He answered questions about Clear Lake making a push to leave school district 742, how updates and construction projects are paid for, work at Madison Elementary and South Junior High.

St. Cloud area voters will likely go to the polls again this fall to decide on whether to build a new Tech High School and upgrade Apollo High School. District 742 Superintendent Willie Jett will be proposing a November referendum for a new Tech High School and updated Apollo to the school board.

A report released this week by the Bureau of Justice Statistics says 6.5 percent of teachers in Minnesota public schools have reported being physically attacked by a student. The report adds that 11.4 percent of Minnesota public school teachers have reported being threatened by a student.

The St. Cloud area school board approved a Tech and Apollo boys hockey co-op on Thursday night. The combination of the teams will be in place for at least two years. Apollo and Tech boys hockey will be combined into one class AA team.