Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius says she feels a “personal responsibility for making my world a better place.”

Kevin McHenry has been tapped as a new assistant commissioner at the Minnesota Department of Education. McHenry takes over for Rose Chu, who left the agency to take a job at Metropolitan State University.

St. Paul City Council member Melvin Carter III is stepping down to become the director of the Office of Early Learning at the Minnesota Department of Education.

Legislation that would bolster Minnesota's anti-bullying statute would cost school districts roughly $26 million annually, according to a fiscal note released Wednesday by the Office of Minnesota Management and Budget. It found that the bullying bill, formally known as the "Safe & Supportive Schools Act," will cost school districts, on average, $30.80 per pupil to implement.

All three elementary schools in the Moorhead Area Public Schools system are failing. That’s the diagnosis from state records released last week by the Department of Education in compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind law.

A report by the Minnesota Legislative Auditor that points to flaws in the state’s K-12 online education program is likely to land on the 2012 legislative agenda.

Keith Lester’s first day as superintendent of Brooklyn Center Schools was Sept. 12, 2005. The next day, voters shot down a proposed property tax levy increase to help fund the schools. If Lester thought at the time that it was a temporary setback, he was wrong.

Students enrolled full-time in online courses are more likely to drop out of high school and make less academic progress than their counterparts in traditional classrooms, according to a new report.

Many Republican candidates from greater Minnesota have hammered constantly on what they called school funding inequities that favored districts in the Twin Cities metro area. But Democrats and urban school advocates are outraged.

After two days of public testimony and debate, the House Education Finance Committee passed Republican's K-12 budget bill, which caps special education funding and strips dollars from areas like Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth while increasing the funding formula for schools across the state.