Last fall I wrote about how average English, math, and composite American College Test (ACT) scores among Minnesota’s high school graduating class of 2022 were the lowest they had been…
Next Tuesday, residents in St. Paul will vote on whether to approve a 1 percent sales tax hike whose revenue will be used for the city’s streets and parks. If…
(And no, they are not using the non-pejorative British definition of scheme, which means a plan or system for doing or organizing something.) In a new attack on educational freedom…
It’s a little over a week until the city council election in the state’s largest city. Local socialists are making a bid for functional control of the council, in opposition…
Heritage Foundation economist Peter St Onge produces daily videos about the economy and freedom. This week, he discussed a recent poll that found young people are more concerned about rising…
Irina Slav wrote a great piece about how we arrived at our current energy crisis at her Substack. I highly recommend you check out her work from time to time.…
State and local taxes and spending KNSI: Minnesota’s budget surplus grows to a projected $2.4 billion, fueling debate over spending Kare 11: Minnesota budget surplus estimate tops $2 billion Rochester…
Last week, Xcel Energy announced it is seeking to install 1,200 megawatts (MW) of new wind capacity in southwest Minnesota by 2027, which would constitute a 25 percent increase in…
The Minneapolis City Council demonstrated once again this week why seating activists in government is counterproductive. This Council makeup is widely viewed as dysfunctional, and its rejection of a…
Historians essentially agree the bloody Dakota uprising of 1862 still stands as the most consequential event in Minnesota history. The media’s attention generally focuses on the December anniversary of the…
An administrative law judge (ALJ) is considering proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 academic standards in social studies. He will weigh the changes against statutory requirements for revising academic standards and…
It turns out that giving away free food to poor hungry children was an extremely lucrative enterprise in 2021. I’ve mentioned before how hundreds of nonprofits sprung up overnight (or…
A recent K-12 student enrollment forecast published by Statista, a data gathering and visualization platform, projects Minnesota K-12 public school enrollment will decline nearly two percent (1.8 percent) from 2021…
Earlier this month, I was invited to present on the results of American Experiment’s modeling on the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on carbon dioxide emissions on new…
As proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 social studies standards await review by an administrative law judge, I think it’s important to reiterate why American Experiment is opposed to the revisions,…
In a recent update, Minnesota Management and Budget announced that Minnesota’s budget surplus for the 2022-23 biennium jumped $820 million, up from the $1.6 billion estimated at the end of…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
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…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…