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Fargo School Board to consider $45 million school on historic Horace Mann site

FARGO (KVRR) – The Fargo School Board on Tuesday will be asked to move forward with the early design and planning phases for a new elementary school on the current Horace Mann site. According to school officials, the project would replace historic Horace Mann Elementary facility and bring together the Roosevelt and Madison attendance areas into one modern, centrally located…

Several Fargo Public Schools May Be Decommissioned In The Next Ten Years

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Some Fargo neighborhoods are facing the possibility of losing three elementary schools and a middle school under what’s being called a “Community Driven Redevelopment Plan.” The project was approved last year to address concerns for some of the district’s aging and inadequate school buildings. “The buildings themselves obviously need a great deal of work; they are…

LIVE: Big Brothers/Big Sisters In Urgent Need Of School-Based Mentors

Big Brothers/Big Sisters mentors are allowed back in schools this year after COVID kept them away last school year

  With the school year already started, time is running out to be there for a kid who needs a mentor in local schools. Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Village Family Service Center is looking for school-based Bigs. The program couldn’t be in schools last year because of COVID. This year they’re looking for people to match with kids in…

Three FPS elementary schools to provide free meals for 2020-21 school year

FARGO, N.D.–.Ed Clapp, Madison and Jefferson Elementary Schools have announced they will participate in the Community Eligibility Provision program for the 2020-21 school year. The CEP program reimburses schools who participate in both the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program that wish to offer free meals to students. All students at the three elementary schools are eligible for…

Madison Elementary Third Graders Create Blankets for Children in Hospital

they wanted to brighten the kids' smiles this holiday season

FARGO, N.D. — Third graders at Madison Elementary in Fargo are trying to spread some holiday cheer for kids in the hospital. They made cozy, fleece tie-blankets to give to children at Ronald McDonald House in Fargo. Madison’s PTA came up with the idea as a way to get the kids more involved in helping the community. Each month a different…