MOORHEAD AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Community, Local News, Minnesota News, Moorhead

Moorhead Area Public Schools overcoming its bus driver shortage

Before classes started last week, Moorhead Area Public Schools pleaded for community support for hiring drivers.
Brandon Blakney,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Before classes started last week, Moorhead Area Public Schools pleaded for community support to hire drivers. Steve Moore, Executive Director of Operations and Emergency Management, says the beginning of school is always challenging with kids still enrolling and adjusting routes. “We’ve had to make with all of our adjustments with the shortage of drivers. It’s been…

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More Kids Are Enrolled In Both Fargo & West Fargo Public Schools

School in Moorhead Starts Next Week, Before Labor Day
TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Kids are back in class and first day enrollment numbers are in for Fargo And West Fargo Public Schools. Fargo has 11,437 students in grades K through 12. That’s an increase of 18 students from the first day numbers in 2021. West Fargo welcomed 11,504 students in grades 1 through 12 across 21 schools. The first…

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Moorhead Area Public Schools eliminating bus options for some families amid driver shortage

Austin Erickson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The Moorhead School Board makes busing changes for the upcoming school year because of a shortage of drivers. Families living within two miles of Horizon Middle School, Moorhead High School and private schools and those living one mile from elementary schools will not be able to have their kids bussed to school. Bus capacity on some…
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Moorhead Area Public Schools Prepares Crisis Team

Sudden Deaths of Three Students
TJ Nelson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Statement from Moorhead Area Public Schools on the deaths of three students this weekend: Moorhead Area Public Schools was notified by the Moorhead Police Department of the tragic deaths of three Moorhead Area Public School students. The students attended S.G. Reinertsen Elementary School and Moorhead High School. It is a difficult time for our school family…

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Moorhead School Board changes quarantine & masking rules

Austin Erickson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The Moorhead School Board votes to replace in-school close contact quarantine for students with testing and make masking inside buildings optional. The quarantine changes begins January 3 for the high school, career academy and preschools, Jan. 17 for middle schools and Jan. 31 for elementary schools. Masks become optional for preschools on Jan. 3, the high…
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Enrollment Continues To Rise For Moorhead Area Public Schools

TJ Nelson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. — School is back in session in Moorhead and the district begins the year with record enrollment numbers. There are 7,336 kids in grades K through 12. That includes 267 students enrolled in the Moorhead online academy. Enrollment is up 183 students from the first day of school last year. Construction of a new Moorhead High School began…
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Masks recommended, five days of in-person learning approved for Moorhead schools

Austin Erickson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The Moorhead School Board has approved the district’s Safe Return to In-Person Learning Plan for the upcoming school year which includes an indoor mask recommendation and five days a week in-person learning. The plan was passed during a special meeting Wednesday. Face coverings will be required on buses to comply with federal mass transit mandates. The…

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Moorhead students return to in-person learning

"The safety of students and staff is our primary concern so we have in place the safety mitigation guidelines that our state is requiring us to follow."
George Gonzales,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — After almost a year of students learning outside of the classroom, Moorhead High School is preparing to welcome back students full time to in-person learning. “We’re pretty excited to have the kids coming back. It kind of almost has that first day of school feel. I know the teachers have been looking forward to teaching kids…

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Community, Coronavirus, Coronavirus-MN, Local News, Minnesota News, Moorhead

Moorhead Area Public Schools Transitions High School Students To Distance Learning

The move is in response to the increase of COVID-19 cases among that age group
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MOORHEAD, Minn- Moorhead High School will transition to distance learning on September 28. Pre-K through 8th grade will continue with the hybrid model. High School students will have an offsite learning day on September 23 to prepare for how distance learning will work. They will learn from home for two weeks. The students are tentatively scheduled to be back in…