It’s Time to Rethink the Burden of Funding Schools

It’s time to rethink the burden of funding schools

We need a system that funds schools adequately and fairly. Property owners can’t continue to carry the burden alone.

After weeks in limbo, schools get green light for federal funds that were on hold

FARGO — School districts in the Fargo-Moorhead area, and nationwide, received news they’ve been waiting for regarding more than $5 billion in frozen federal funds. On Friday, July 25, those K-12 education dollars, approved by Congress but withheld for review by the Trump administration, were released for the 2025-26 school year. Fargo Public Schools hadn’t received official word about the change on Friday, but Superintendent Cory Steiner was hap…