No one can say administrators at St. Cloud State University didn’t warn them. Long before SCSU President Robbyn Wacker recently left her post two months early, she froze registration in…
Minnesota homeschool enrollment increased 10 percent from the 2022-23 school year to the 2023-24 school year, a new surge since the post-COVID lull. From the 2019-20 school year to the…
It came as a surprise to many when the Forum recently revealed that 18 employees of the Fargo School District live out of state and work remotely from as far…
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to discuss educational freedom and the competitive entrepreneurial marketplace that is flourishing thanks to new and expanding school choice programs across…
Despite pressure from Rochester Public Schools (RPS), student counselor Christina Barton is standing by her statement that transgender and gender-expansive administrative “guidelines” were being hidden from the public. Barton recently…
Students who attend private schools have, on average, better civic outcomes than students who attend public schools, according to a new statistical meta-analysis published in the journal Educational Psychology Review.…
Three years and $190 billion of federal taxpayer funding later, K-12 schools face the sudden reality that COVID gives and, just as certainly, takes away. Yet Education Week and the…
A bill making its way through the Minnesota legislature would require setting exam scores to ensure that 95 percent of education paraprofessionals working on their statewide credential pass the assessments…
The question of what to do about school resource officers burned up countless hours of discussion by the Rochester Public Schools Board prior to this academic year. A last-ditch effort…
Finally some leadership! A school board member in the state’s largest school district threw down the gauntlet this week with a list of policies, practices and funding choices that need…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Minnesota Department of Education’s release of 2023 graduation data. The department reported a slight decline compared to the 2022 graduation rate…
Determining a child’s academic progress is complicated. There are many different measures used to help determine how a student is doing academically — teacher observations, in-class assignments, quizzes and tests,…
It’s open season on Minnesotans’ religious liberty under the Walz administration and the DFL-controlled state legislature.
Support for school choice spans the political, demographic and geographic spectrums — polling shows us this, personal stories show us this — but can become more one-sided among policymakers, legislators,…
The Biden administration continues to concoct new ways for American taxpayers to be held financially responsible for the student loans of untold thousands of fellow citizens who calculated a college…
Minnesota’s Department of Education greenlights decolonization and ideological extremism.
Are all the children in Lake Wobegon still above average? If Democrats in the legislature have their way, we’ll never know. The Minnesota Senate passed an education bill this week…
Growth in public school administration continues despite declining student enrollment, according to Minnesota data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) compiled by American Experiment. In January 2023, I…
How relaxing school accountability has hurt academic achievement.
On Oct. 7, 2023, the world witnessed Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In the days that followed, loud voices attempted to…
Microschools are catching on as more Minnesota families look for public school alternatives.
Better late than never, when it comes to legislators fixing the DFL’s botched law that led many police departments to pull officers out of schools due to liability concerns. But…
While often labeled a one-party issue, school choice is widely supported among constituents across the political spectrum. Support among state leaders can get a bit one-sided, but there have been…
A national poll of over 2,000 likely voters found that 85 percent of respondents want teachers to make sure both sides of controversial topics are represented equally when they come…