In response to COVID, the federal government sent Minnesota $1.3 billion for E-12 education. Those dollars were meant to help schools return to, and maintain, safe in-person learning for all…
The U.S. Department of Education has recognized seven Minnesota schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2024. The recognition is awarded to schools across the country based on overall academic…
Those wishing to cut state government spending could begin with the 173 employees in the Walz administration working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). American Experiment intern Nathan Fish recently…
On Wednesday, the Education and Workforce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a press release announcing: Chair Foxx Subpoenas Walz’s Minnesota Department of Education to Demand Accountability in…
More than half of Minnesota public school students still don’t meet basic proficiency in reading or math, according to newly released 2024 statewide assessment results by the Minnesota Department of…
District administrative staff in Minnesota public schools is up over 132 percent (132.1 percent) since 2000, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics…
Between July this year and July 2025, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) will officially be breaking off into three state agencies. Due to a law passed in the…
It has not been a good couple of months for the Minnesota state government. First, on June 11, the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) published a report estimating that…
The Minnesota Reformer recently ran an article showing some of the ways the state has changed since Gov. Tim Walz took office in January 2019. Reporter Christopher Ingraham used a…
According to the 102-yearold organization PEN America, long considered the defender of free expression — particularly regarding literature and its proliferation — we are in a “book ban crisis.” Thousands…
The number of principals and assistant principals in Minnesota public elementary and secondary schools has ticked up again, despite declining student enrollment, according to state data from the National Center…
Government fraud and corruption have persisted long enough.
The state’s Legislative Audit office released the report this morning on the state Department of Education’s (MDE) mishandling of the Feeding Our Future scandal. A 120-page PDF of the report…
Seven decades ago this May, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools…
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…
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…
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…
It’s open season on Minnesotans’ religious liberty under the Walz administration and the DFL-controlled state legislature.
Minnesota’s Department of Education greenlights decolonization and ideological extremism.
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…
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…
The 2023 graduation rate was 83.3 percent, a 0.3 percentage point decrease compared to the 2022 rate, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Part of the dip “includes students…
Enrollment in Minnesota’s public schools has declined again, according to data recently uploaded by the Minnesota Department of Education. For the 2023-24 school year, public schools lost roughly 0.2 percent…
A bill up in both the House and Senate Finance committees this week would require statewide academic health standards. Currently, school boards are responsible for adopting local standards for student…