The number of district administrators in U.S. public schools has grown 87.6 percent between 2000 and 2019 compared to student growth at 7.6 percent and teacher growth at 8.7 percent.…
Efforts to politicize K-12 public education and turn classrooms into ideological battlegrounds have dominated headlines over the past two years, as school closures and distance learning gave parents a peek…
A plurality of parents think $8,000 or less is what should be annually spent per student in their state’s public schools, according to a 2022 national survey conducted by EdChoice.…
Taxpayers already pay billions to subsidize the ever-skyrocketing costs of higher education. But the Biden administration wants us to pay $400 billion more so students who took out college loans…
How widespread has the opioid epidemic become? In an ominous sign of the times, Rochester Public Schools recently began stocking the anti-overdose medication Narcan. The medication quickly reverses the effects…
There’s a lot of catching up to do in schools following the catastrophic state policy of preventing students from attending class in person due to COVID. The drastic decline in…
A new two-year, $300,000 marketing campaign is underway by the St. Paul Public Schools (SPPS) district to reverse declining enrollment, reported the Pioneer Press. Families have been steadily leaving St.…
It’s no secret that student learning loss over these past couple of years has been significant. With the release of test scores on the 2022 reading and math National Association of…
A majority of parents want to play a key role in their children’s educational experiences, according to a spring survey released in October and recently reported on by The 74.…
Minnesota per pupil spending is now at $14,378, according to preliminary data for FY 2021 released by the U.S. Census Bureau. This continues at least a 10-year upward trend of…
The lone bright spot for conservatives in Minnesota elections looks to be parent-backed candidates for school board. According to the Minnesota Parents Alliance, more than 50 conservative candidates won election…
Enrollment on Minnesota State University campuses continued to decline this fall, dipping nearly four percent across the 7 universities and 26 community and technical colleges in the system. Despite a…
Minnesota’s public school open enrollment options fall short, according to a new Reason Foundation report by Jude Schwalbach that ranked all 50 states’ K-12 open enrollment laws. Open enrollment policies…
The status quo is getting nervous in the Orono school board race. Several former school board members sent a two-page letter this weekend to every house in the district warning…
Much ink has been spilled recently on the release of 2022 national reading and math scores, which add to data on the devastating learning loss that has occurred over the…
A recent article by Kare 11 asserts that “political ideology” has all of a sudden entered school board races across Minnesota because there are parent candidates running on “themes of…
The closer Election Day comes, the more media attention than ever appears to be focused on local school board elections this year. Take Rochester, where American Experiment’s Bill Walsh revealed…
Social Studies expert Professor Wilfred McClay says standards move Minnesota backwards A new report written by national social studies expert Wilfred McClay and released today from Center of the American…
Public schools are not successfully educating students to do grade-level reading and math and are not preparing them for future success, according to a national survey of African American voters…
The Rochester Education Association, also known as the teacher’s union, is pulling out all the stops to protect their preferred school board members in next Tuesday’s election. Action alert emails…
Listen below to my Saturday discussion with economist King Banaian on the education costs of lockdowns and shutdowns, as detailed out in my report here. What started as a public…
When given a list of factors to rank in choosing a school, more charter and private school parents selected “academic quality or reputation” in their Top 3 compared to public…
Education Minnesota — the state’s teachers’ union — is not shy about its opposition to the school choice movement. (Never mind the research and data on the positive impacts of…
Over 60 percent of Americans believe K-12 education is on the wrong track, according to EdChoice’s 2022 Schooling in America survey. That is nearly an 8-point increase from 2021 results.…