A new survey has found that those who identify as MAGA supporters and as liberal/progressive have found common ground on school choice policy. Conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of…
New social studies standards are coming to all Minnesota K-12 public schools this fall. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, the revised standards and benchmarks reflect a “shift away…
A new analysis by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) gave 93 percent of 15 elementary teacher preparation programs in Minnesota an “A” or “A+” for adequately covering the…
In just five years, Minnesota’s education system has fallen from #7 nationally to #21, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2026 Kids Count Report. The highly regarded nonprofit Annie…
Starting in 2026, every K-12 school in Minnesota will be required to embed Ethnic Studies in every Social Studies class as a new strand. But the ideological lens of Minnesota's Ethnic Studies diminishes the common humanity of each student and encourages cultural tension at a time when diversity, civic discourse, and individual agency should be valued.
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Should third-graders be required to study “solidarity movements” with the teacher asking questions like: “How do institutions, like schools, oppress groups based on race?” That's the law in Minnesota unless legislators repeal the ethnic studies mandate on local schools.
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Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
Starting in fall 2026, ethnic studies in its “liberated” form will be mandatory across all grade levels. This version of ethnic studies does more than simply encourage cultural awareness or…
To support Minnesota’s new requirement for a liberated version of Ethnic Studies, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) is turning the new Ethnic…
Why a 7k instead of a 5k? Who’s eligible to win the $7,000 scholarship raffle? What is $7k for Kids? We answer all these questions and more in this two-minute…
On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, pushing back Nazi Germany and changing the course of world history. The D-Day invasion marked the…
A new survey has found that those who identify as MAGA supporters and as liberal/progressive have found common ground on school choice policy. Conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of…
New social studies standards are coming to all Minnesota K-12 public schools this fall. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, the revised standards and benchmarks reflect a “shift away…
A new analysis by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) gave 93 percent of 15 elementary teacher preparation programs in Minnesota an “A” or “A+” for adequately covering the…
In just five years, Minnesota’s education system has fallen from #7 nationally to #21, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2026 Kids Count Report. The highly regarded nonprofit Annie…