Graduation rates increasing
For the second year in a row, Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) saw a 5 percent increase in its graduation rates. More than 64 percent of Minneapolis …
Archive by category Youth and School
News and information on Camden area youth and schools.
Cookie Cart offers sweet deal on Valentine’s cookies
Cookie Cart, the North Minneapolis nonprofit bakery employing Northside youth, is offering customers a sweet deal on their specially decorated Valentine’s …
It may not be summer, but it’s definitely time for a Fair
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is partnering with schools throughout the city to host the upcoming School Fair Showcase, an annual event where more than 70 …
North Minneapolis Greenway Hmong youth meet with City staff
On December 30, a group of Hmong students living on the Humboldt/Irving route of the proposed North Minneapolis Greenway went to city hall and met with …
Henry Homecoming
Henry High students held their homecoming parade, football game and dance on September 26. The Patriots played Mound-Westonka and unfortunately lost the game …
Generation Next
When you were a child, where was your favorite place to read? Was it under an apple tree or beneath the covers at night using a flash light for illumination? …
PCYC Annual Children’s Christmas Gift Sale seeks volunteers, gifts
More than 5,000 gifts and over 300 volunteers are needed to transform the PCYC campus into a Christmas Gift Store – and help 1,000 low income Northside youth …
Patrick Henry 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees
On October 13, Patrick Henry will induct the following alumni into the Hall of Fame at the all-school luncheon. This year’s luncheon will be held at …
Mentoring makes all the difference in young lives
Melissa McCammon, a single, professional woman, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, and Lyshae Rogers, a teenager being raised by a single mom in North …
Northside Hmong girls visit Minnesota Arboretum
On June 18, a van full of Hmong girls headed out from their Northside homes to visit the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. They had been looking …