Overview
- Minneapolis Public Schools will provide a monthlong virtual option with teachers delivering lessons to students both in classrooms and at home.
- The move follows two days of canceled classes and reverses a recent district note that e-learning was only allowable for severe weather.
- Internal emails describe the step as a way to maintain safety and attendance, with the Minnesota Department of Education confirming districts may offer remote options.
- Heightened tensions included a federal agent’s fatal shooting of a local resident and arrests near a high school, with the teachers union reporting tear gas was used and an educator was briefly detained.
- Neighboring Columbia Heights and Fridley districts also shifted temporarily to remote instruction, and federal probes tied to Somali welfare fraud continue with dozens charged and convictions reported as the White House creates a new DOJ fraud unit.