The legendary North High boys basketball coach keeps replaying the video of George Floyd in his mind. "That could ve been me. That could ve been my son. That could ve been any of my players."
In 1973, Rochester’s Rod Raver high jumped 7-foot-1 to set the high school state record. Nearly 50 years later, that record still stands. After that jump, though, Raver spent the next decade in a freefall. Until, he says, God caught him.
Minneapolis Public Schools Principal Mauri Friestleben has been terminated from her role, citing her participation in a student-led walkout earlier this year. Friestleben, the principal at North Community High School in the Near North neighborhood, announced in a release that Friday was her last day.