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    Mitchell schools, MTI and DWU closed Friday
    School’s closed. Due to weather, Mitchell School District, Mitchell Technical Institute and John Paul II will be closed Friday. Superintendent Joe Graves made the decision early Friday morning.
    news/education18 hours 25 min ago
    January 16, 2019
    Mitchell High School seniors Jamison Gross, left, and Sam Jones have been selected for the 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, which recognizes students nationally for their leadership, scholarship, and contributions to the community. (Matt Gade / Republic)
    Two MHS students recognized and honored
    Getting involved and making an effort led two Mitchell High School seniors to new opportunities. Jamison Gross and Sam Jones have been selected...
    news/educationJanuary 16, 2019 - 11:30am
    January 14, 2019
    Mitchell school board extends Graves' contract
    The Mitchell Board of Education presented Superintendent Joe Graves a new three-year contract Monday evening after the regular meeting at the...
    news/educationJanuary 14, 2019 - 9:07pm
    School board to evaluate, consider Graves contract
    The Mitchell Board of Education will hold its annual evaluation of Superintendent Joe Graves and consider a possible three-year contract to extend his tenure as the district's top official. The board will meet at 5 p.m. for a regular meeting at the Mitchell Technical Institute Campus...
    news/educationJanuary 14, 2019 - 6:00am
    January 8, 2019
    Motivational banners hang inside the new Andes Central school building on Monday. (Matt Gade / Republic)
    Everything comes together for Andes Central new school
    LAKE ANDES — Almost everything is new at the Andes Central school facility. And just as importantly, it's all under one roof. A $13 million...
    news/educationJanuary 8, 2019 - 7:30am
    January 7, 2019
    Agreement will forgive 1,011 South Dakota students' debt
    PIERRE—Following a five-year investigation, 1,011 South Dakota students will receive $1,593,219 in debt relief from Career Education Corporation, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced Monday.
    news/educationJanuary 7, 2019 - 2:58pm
    January 5, 2019
    Attorney General Lori Swanson. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Minnesota AG advocates for defrauded students: Swanson urges feds to forgive loans
    ST. PAUL — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is asking the U.S. Department of Education to forgive the federal loans of 1,000 students...
    news/educationJanuary 5, 2019 - 11:18am
    January 2, 2019
    Aberdeen parents sue school district claiming physical, emotional abuse of children with disabilities
    ABERDEEN, S.D. - Three sets of parents have filed a civil lawsuit against the Aberdeen School District claiming the rights of their children...
    news/educationJanuary 2, 2019 - 4:51pm
    Jim Shaw
    Shaw: If Devos gets her way, more people will get away with sexual assault
    What Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to do to school sexual misconduct rules is horrifying. What DeVos is proposing would allow accused...
    education/opinion/columnsJanuary 2, 2019 - 12:23pm
    December 28, 2018
    Holding students accountable at MHS
    One year after its implementation, a three-tier policy to reduce truancy and absenteeism of Mitchell's students is showing positive results....
    news/educationDecember 28, 2018 - 9:34am
    December 27, 2018
    Zurina Parker, 5, and Jadika Parker, 7, in Pflugerville, Texas, walk in their neighborhood on March 21 shortly after their school was reopened after being put on lockdown earlier in the day while police searched the nearby Austin home of a bombing suspect. Washington Post photo by Carolyn Van Houten
    Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids
    Locked behind their green classroom door, MaKenzie Woody and 25 other first-graders huddled in the darkness. She sat on the vinyl tile floor...
    news/educationDecember 27, 2018 - 8:10am
    December 21, 2018
    US judge says law enforcement officers had no legal duty to protect Parkland students during mass shooting
    A federal judge in South Florida tossed out a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...
    news/educationDecember 21, 2018 - 4:32pm
    December 19, 2018
    Forum on opioid abuse to come to DWU in January
    "The Cost of Opioid Abuse: A forum on opioid abuse in South Dakota," is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 14, in the Sherman Center at Dakota Wesleyan...
    news/educationDecember 19, 2018 - 7:15am
    Gertie Belle Rogers Principal Vicki Harmdierks and, from left, fourth graders Matteah Graves and Addyson Moody and third grader Elliot Smith run their Dash and Dot robots along a pattern on the floor from their iPad app. Harmdierks will be retiring from the Mitchell School District at the end of this school year. (Matt Gade / Republic)
    For the love of learning: Harmdierks plans to retire after 35 years in education
    For Vicki Harmdierks, principal of Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary School, teaching was never a job, it was a calling. But after 35 years in education,...
    news/educationDecember 19, 2018 - 7:05am
    December 15, 2018
    Glad You Asked: Is the corn burning furnace in use at school?
    Q: The Mitchell School District has a corn burning furnace (I think at Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary School). In the past, it was used for heating...
    news/educationDecember 15, 2018 - 7:30am
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