Schools

Local high schoolers must have brushed up on their 80’s pop culture and decided “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was more than just a teen comedy film. With roughly 23 percent of Detroit Lakes High School students classifying as “chronically absent” last year, teachers may be...

If members of the Lake Park-Audubon School Board have their way, the city-owned street to the north of the LP-A Elementary School building – Marvin Street – may soon become school property. At its Monday night meeting, the board directed LP-A School Superintendent Dale Hogie to...

The Detroit Lakes School District is having trouble filling teaching positions—particularly related to special education—for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. Superintendent Doug Froke said Monday night, during the monthly school board meeting, that “We’re in a critical state,”...

A special meeting of the Lake Park-Audubon School Board was held Monday night in Lake Park to discuss staffing changes at the elementary school in Audubon. But two late staffing changes at the high school were also on the table, as the resignations of language arts instructors Travis...

The Detroit Lakes school board met Monday, approving next year’s (2016-17) operating budget and awarding the Rossman parking and traffic project to Phelp Plumbing. “After receiving a presentation from Ryan Tangen, the district’s business manager, the school board approved a...

For more than two decades now, Vicky Grondahl has been a constant presence on the Lake Park-Audubon School Board. But after being elected to the board six times, the small resort owner and teacher has decided there won’t be a seventh. In fact, at their regular meeting last week,...

After a resounding “no” for the school bond referendum Wednesday May 18, both the “vote no” and “vote yes” groups are taking a little time to regroup. The Detroit Lakes group who called themselves the “Concerned Citizens for Child Safety, Vote No committee” has regrouped...