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Echo Park Elementary School of Leadership, Engineering and Technology and Glacier Hills Elementary School of Arts and Science earn 2025 Top Magnet School honors.
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Emerald Trail Elementary School will open in Fall 2025 in Rosemount.
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Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Board members elected officers at the January 13 annual organizational meeting and set their meeting dates through June 2026.
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Eagan residents Robin Cerio and Catherine Diamond will fill the expiring terms of Art Coulson and Sachin Isaacs, who resigned earlier this year.
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The 2025-26 school calendar is now available.