The attorney for Burnsville schools on Wednesday reasserted the position that the district can pay one of the largest severance settlements to an employee in recent memory and not explain why.

Almost 30 students were on a bus that crashed with a car in St. Paul this afternoon, but no students were injured, police said. The car's driver had minor injuries, according to a police spokesman.

Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday signed into law a bill requiring candidates for teaching jobs to pass a basic skills test in reading, writing and math to get a teaching license.

A former high school English teacher was found guilty Tuesday of criminal sexual conduct after he repeatedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl who had been in his class weeks before.

BURLINGTON, Vt. - A lawyer who had served as a vice president and provost at the University of Minnesota will become the next president of the University of Vermont.

Wisconsin education officials will apply for a waiver from No Child Left Behind today, hoping to join 11 other states that have already been granted breathing room from the landmark educational requirements.

It's official: After nine months of unusually intense negotiations, St. Paul teachers have a new two-year contract.

The Burnsville school district's human resources director will receive nearly two years pay to resign, and district leaders won't say why.

After narrowly dodging closure last year, St. Paul's Four Seasons Elementary got a new home - and a pressing mission to win over its new neighbors.

Dozens of hands shot up during a discussion in a Coon Rapids Middle School classroom last week.

Candidates for the Hudson school board will decrease by one following Tuesday's primary election.

Farmington school leaders are in a unique position - they have money to spend and money to cut at the same time.

BlueSky Online Charter School won the battle with the Minnesota Department of Education to stay open. Now, it's looking to rebuild its reputation and reclaim hundreds of thousands of dollars in fiscal losses.

Metropolitan State University's plans to build a wind turbine by its library at 645 E. Seventh St., between Maria Avenue and Mounds Boulevard, suffered a setback this week when the St. Paul Planning Commission's zoning committee voted 4-2 to reject the proposal.