If STEP Academy closes, it would be the largest charter school failure in history. CATHY WURZER: Our top story, a Minnesota charter school is on the brink of closing. Last night at a board meeting for ...

The embattled leader of STEP Academy, one of Minnesota’s largest charter schools, agreed to resign, just a few days after he tried shifting the blame for the school’s financial crisis to the nonprofit ...

Anyone who has school-age kids, or another opportunity to watch teachers up close, knows that it takes a lot for a teacher to walk away from their class in the middle of a school year. They know what ...

A group of 10 nonprofits that oversee almost all of the publicly funded charter schools in Minnesota refuses to turn over documents showing how they handle contract violations by the schools they ...