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WILLMAR — A new program in the Willmar area could potentially give high school students a head start on learning to become successful entrepreneurs and small business owners. The CEO program, which stands for “Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities,” was founded in 2008 in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday will unveil a sweeping new plan for rating colleges based in part on affordability, with the goal of eventually linking those ratings to federal financial aid awards.

GROVE CITY — Students who may be struggling academically or socially are getting after-school classroom help through a new “targeted services” program in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School District. Designed for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, the extended-day...

WILLMAR — The Willmar School Board wants to see more communications between the school district’s early childhood education programs and its elementary schools. Early childhood educators gave an update on their pre-school literacy efforts at a School Board workshop on Monday....

WILLMAR — Principal Nathan Cox gathered with his staff before school started Monday at Roosevelt Elementary School in Willmar. “The unthinkable has happened,” he told them, and they had a conversation about what to say to children who asked about the school shooting that occurred...

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