Due to the early closing of school on Monday, Litchfield School District's Registration Night for eighth through 11th grades was rescheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 22.

The district spelling bee was rescheduled to 7 p.m. Feb. 22.

The Litchfield School Board meeting also was rescheduled to Feb. 22.

Schools in the Litchfield School District will start two hours late Tuesday.

The Kindergarten Tasty Tuesday breakfast has been canceled. A new date will be announced later.

Due to the early closing of school on Monday, Litchfield School District's Registration Night for eighth through 11th grades was rescheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 22. The district spelling bee was rescheduled to 7 p.m. Feb. 22. The Litchfield School Board meeting also was rescheduled to Feb. 22.

As a new legislative session begins, school districts across the state are wondering about the fate of state funding in coming years.

In an effort to avoid cash flow problems in March, April and May, the Department of Education will delay payments to hundreds of school districts across the state, probably on March 15, March 30 and April 15, to help the state pay its bills.

The 39th Annual Peanut Butter and Milk Festival kicked off this weekend with the arrival of a delegation of high school students and adults from Hartford, Ala.

State education officials submitted Minnesota’s official application for President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative with overwhelming support from the state’s schools and districts.

The 1,000 page application is accompanied by memoranda of agreement signed by 300 school districts and 116 charter schools, representing over 93 percent of the students in the state. Because of the overwhelming support from local school districts, the state increased its grant request from $230 to $330 million.

Litchfield Public Schools and School of St. Philip will start two hours late on Wednesday, Feb. 3, to allow time for teacher instructional workshops.

More than 250 districts and charter schools have submitted a Race to the Top memorandum of agreement to the Minnesota Department of Education.

Litchfield, ACGC and Eden Valley-Watkins school districts all have announced their intention to participate in the application. School administrations, school boards, teachers and communities still have time to participate for President Obama’s education initiative. The deadline to submit the RTTT agreements to MDE is 4:30 p.m. today.

Eden Valley-Watkins High School was one of 10 schools in the state to receive the 2009 Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation School Spotlight Award for academic excellence and student success as evidenced by their students’ achievements.