Good history I don’t live in Minnesota, but I appreciate good political reporting and history. Your article [“How the Range was Lost”] was excellent. Mark Pulliam Teacher pay I just…
Likely unbeknownst to many (including me, originally) the National Education Association — the largest teachers’ union in the country — has a federal charter that was issued by the U.S. Congress back…
The next (and perhaps final) chapter in Minnesota’s journey to dramatically change how we teach children is about to begin. The journey began in December 2020 when the Minnesota Department…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker speaks with Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist, researcher, and writer, about his bestselling book, the roots of cultural wokeism, and putting a stop to the political…
Happy Fourth of July! While the rest of America is celebrating Independence Day, the national teachers’ union is conducting a day of business during its annual four-day Representative Assembly. This…
On Jan. 5, 2024, Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman approved the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) controversial K-12 social studies standards, which have generated public outcry for three years. He…
Who says conservatives can’t win?
It’s MEA weekend in Minnesota, which means schools statewide cancel two days of learning in deference to the annual meeting of Education Minnesota, the state’s most powerful public employee union.…
Controversy over critical race theory (CRT) in America’s public schools has been a flashpoint in our nation’s culture wars since at least 2020. In Virginia, parents’ outcry against it determined…
I highly recommend Rufo’s book on the origins of the CRT/DEI/ethnic studies phenomenon. The Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, still ranks…
School choice is making waves across the country thanks to union boss Randi Weingarten.
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we begin what ultimately will be a deep dive into the state’s ethnic studies industrial complex. One of the more controversial bills passed…
Likely unbeknownst to many (including me, originally) the National Education Association — the largest teachers’ union in the country — has a federal charter that was issued by the U.S.…
The DFL-controlled legislature passed many changes to Minnesota’s E-12 education landscape this past legislative session. One of those changes is the removal of a local arts standards option. While the…
In 1983, a report by the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education sounded the alarm on the many failures in American education. Following the release of the report,…
Minnesota’s new teacher licensing standards will require educators to ‘demonstrate’ ideological content.
Questioning the inclusion of ideological agendas in K-12 education is not opposition to fact-based history, as teachers’ unions and activists claim. In fact, making such a claim is a distraction…
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten addressed the National Press Club last week, framing her remarks as a “defense of public education.” But Weingarten’s dire warnings about the “existential…
While most of their peers were in algebra or English class Monday morning, a group of students gathered in the Capitol rotunda to listen to speeches in favor of a…
The title of a bill introduced by Sen. Mary Kunesh (39, DFL) is a worthy goal that the state has been pursuing and should continue pursuing: increasing teachers of color.…
The progressive policy hazards that will push Minnesota past the point of no return.
News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.
A report from the administrative law judge tasked with reviewing proposed amendments to the state’s licensure rule for teachers has been released. The 86-page report responds to rule changes to…
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…