The breakdown of Minnesota’s law enforcement institutions isn’t new, neither are the solutions.
How Minn State’s radical new plan sacrifices academic excellence for racial and ethnic priorities.
Hopkins school board member Steve Adams — who was named to the 2022 All-State School Board, which is the Minnesota School Boards Association’s (MSBA) most prestigious award — recently called…
Recovery from learning loss among Mississippi students — who had significantly more access to in-person instruction than Minnesota students — is dramatically higher compared to Minnesota students. Data continue to…
Last week, the St. Paul City Council voted to amend the city’s strict rent control ordinance. While the law still caps rent hikes at 3 percent, it will exempt new…
Equal outcomes by decree are now the top priority at our state’s largest higher ed system. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system — our state’s largest higher education system,…
Last week our Education Policy Fellow Catrin Wigfall testified in front of an Administrative Law Judge and the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) about their latest proposal requiring…
Earlier this month, CNBC reported: Hiring in July was far better than expected, defying multiple other signs that the economic recovery is losing steam, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported…
The rise of Mississippi as a national exemplar in math and reading growth has given policymakers in other states a model to learn from. The state made headlines for being…
With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gasoline prices in history, some legislators and the Walz administration put forward a policy during the 2022 session to artificially raise them even more by…
A recent Rasmussen poll found a majority of voters are concerned about rising energy costs and favor increased drilling for oil and gas, although most Democratic voters consider reducing climate…
The political backlash since Biden’s Department of Education released new and restrictive rules for a federal charter school grant program in March is not letting up. Parents, educators, education advocacy…
The problem of overspending isn’t just anecdotal, it is systemic.
Exposing identity politics’ inconvenient lies.
Support for education freedom continues to grow across party lines and demographics, according to a February poll by OnMessage Inc. and reported on by the American Federation for Children. Education…
The state of Minnesota has reclassified students’ race/ethnicity in enrollment data as either “American Indian” or “Not American Indian.” Student enrollment data for a school, district, or county is available…
Seventy-two percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school that…
Minnesota students in school districts that switched to distance learning over the course of the 2020-21 school year had greater declines in math compared to their peers in school districts…
Center of the American Experiment this week launched a statewide radio campaign with ads in Spanish, Somali and English educating Minnesotans on how alternative energy sources such as wind and…
As taxes skyrocket, quality of life plummets.
Center of the American Experiment’s “Think About It” radio campaign won the State Policy Network’s Communication Excellence Award in the Bold Brand Boost Category last week at SPN’s annual meeting…
Despite growing evidence over the years that a one-size-fits-all education system cannot — and does not — meet the needs of all students, Democratic leaders have largely opposed efforts to…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) released test results Friday from the state’s Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), showing steep drops in student proficiency in reading and mathematics, as first reported…
The ‘surge’ in cases of the ‘Delta Variant’ of COVID-19 is prompting a clamor for the return of so-called ‘Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions’ (NPIs) — mask mandates, shutdowns and the like —…