The Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is drawing praise from the community after a promising first year.

The school's predecessor, Four Winds American Indian Magnet School, was shut down last year amid growing problems. It reopened in a new building with a new principal, Mike Huerth, who is Ojibwe.

The school did not meet its testing goals for the first year but students showed improvements on some standardized tests. On the eighth-grade Basic Skills Test, 45 percent passed the reading portion and 40 percent passed the math portion.

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School's changing winds (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 6/8)
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Anishinabe Academy - http://anishinabe.mpls.k12.mn.us