Yesterday, President Biden said: Each of these is misleading. I should preface this by saying that, to some extent, that depends on what period you are referring to. As Figure…
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…
Gov. Walz and legislative leaders spent the summer of 2020 debating a response to the May riots and their aftermath. The Democratic Party position was outlined in press conferences and…
U.S. Attorney Andy Luger has recorded the 4th guilty plea entered in the sprawling Feeding Our Future free-food fraud case. Defendant No. 29 (out of 50 total), Abdul Ali, entered…
It’s been more than two decades since residents of a state have voted to impose legislative term limits on elected officials. North Dakotans could end that dry spell on November…
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…
The Star Tribune has published a 3-part series on Minnesota’s juvenile justice system. The series paints a picture of inexplicably poor decisions made by our political and juvenile justice leadership…
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.…
For years, Minnesotans endured smug lectures from liberal legislators and renewable energy boosters about the virtue and wisdom of Germany’s energy “transition” that consisted of heavily subsidizing wind and solar,…
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission (MSGC) is an appointed governmental body that has significant influence over the direction and effectiveness of our state’s criminal justice systems, through the establishment of…
Each year, Education Minnesota charges member teachers and education support professionals (ESPs) $25.00 for its political action committee (PAC). PAC money is spent on political parties, candidates, and other political…
Yesterday, the Tax Foundation published its latest Business Tax Climate Index, a report that gauges how tax systems compare among states. Minnesota is yet again at the bottom of that…
Just when the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk couldn’t get any more dramatic, the tech giant’s employees have drafted an open letter demanding no layoffs, no political discrimination against…
The steady decline in college enrollment continues to chip away at institutions of higher education across the country. After years of trimming expenses here and there due to falling admissions,…
Last week, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen released his 10-point plan for Northern Minnesota. Among his proposals was a plan to save the Boswell Energy Center, a 922-megawatt coal-fired power…
On October 9, Gov. Walz tweeted “Our small businesses and working families are driving our state’s economic expansion.” But Minnesota’s economy isn’t expanding. Indeed, data released by the Bureau of…
There’s a loophole in the state statute that requires health care facilities to report suspicious injuries caused by a firearm or other dangerous weapon to authorities. The law leaves out…
Minnesota is one of the most expensive states for center-based childcare as American Experiment noted in June. In 2019, for example, families spent over $16,000 to send their infant to…
Monday 10/24/22 marked the end of criminal prosecution of the former police officers involved in George Floyd’s death. As jury selection was about to begin in the state trial of…
Mississippi black and Hispanic students continue to outperform Minnesota black and Hispanic students in fourth-grade math and reading and eighth-grade reading, according to 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)…
Back in 2019, Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted: The idea of a “pink tax” rests on the idea that women are charged more for the same good or service than…
Xcel Energy is proposing a massive 20 percent price hike on its electricity customers in Minnesota to finance its own version of the Green New Deal. Unfortunately, the left-leaning Minnesota…
President Biden is, once again, undermining the rule of law. This month the Biden administration finalized a rule that will very likely add to its growing list of administrative actions…
Minnesota fourth- and eighth-grade student academic performance on the reading and math National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests adds to data on the devastating learning loss that has occurred…