The long-awaited second draft of Minnesota’s revised K-12 social studies standards will be available next week, according to an email from the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies. Following the…
Federal data released Monday revealed Minnesota K-12 public school enrollment dropped by 2.36 percent — roughly 17,000 students — in 2020 compared with the previous school year, according to The…
The editorial board of the Mankato Free Press recently took issue with American Experiment’s Raise Our Standards education tour (Our View: Campaign against social study standards a political ploy), resorting…
A recent study on the prevalence of COVID-19 infections in school staff who maintained in-person schooling during the 2020 school year found they are no more likely to get the…
The Minnesota State Senate and House of Representatives have reached an agreement on the the biennial K-12 education budget, which includes suspending any implementation of revised academic standards that were…
From now until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, Minnesotans can submit public feedback on how the Minnesota Department of Education could use the nearly $124 million of flexible federal…
Families who enrolled their children in a Twin Cities private school during COVID-19 are sticking around for the upcoming 2021 school year, reports the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal.…
Minnesota legislators are currently negotiating the E-12 education omnibus bill, which involves hashing out the differences between the House version and the Senate version before a final version is approved.…
Thirty years ago, Minnesota became the first state to spark the fastest growing engine of change for public education: the charter school revolution. By passing the nation’s first charter school…
Minnesota is moving forward with standardized math and reading tests this spring, but the state will likely not use the test results to identify struggling schools, reports the Pioneer Press.…
A cabal of progressives wants to rewrite how students learn about their American heritage.
The Department of Education is defending its first draft of revised social studies standards by stating this early version “provided a revision of the standards, not the benchmarks.” The Social…
Most Minnesota public schools were closed for much of the last year due to the pandemic. One of the good things to come out of the COVID-closings was the development…
Despite no proven correlation between spending and student achievement, Big Education relentlessly demands—and gets—more and more money.
Governor Walz’s expectation that all k-12 students be offered “some form of in-person learning” by March 8 wasn’t quite met. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, about nine percent…
The number of students enrolled in Minnesota public schools dropped by two percent this school year while homeschooling and private school enrollment increased, according to data released by the Minnesota…
Beginning Monday, February 22, 2021, middle and high schools can bring students back into classrooms for hybrid or in-person learning with mitigation strategies implemented, Governor Tim Walz announced today. Many…
Today (Monday) at 3 p.m., the Committee on Education Finance and Policy will have a hearing on the proposed Minnesota K-12 social studies standards. The virtual hearing will be live-streamed on…
This op-ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune. Minnesota parents, are you ready for the coming “woke” invasion of your child’s public school? By 2022, as your first-grader is learning…
Governor Walz's Due North Education Plan does not include student outcomes, which limits meaningful measures of student gains in competency and achievement.
Use this interactive map of Minnesota to identify a school district or charter school and the number of grade levels operating under each learning model.
Which America should students be taught: America founded on hard work and freedom or America founded on bias and discrimination? The Minnesota Department of Education prefers the latter. Don't let…
The Minnesota Department of Education has recently released the first working draft of the state's K-12 academic standards in social studies. The public feedback and comment period about this first…
If parents could grade Twin Cities public schools on their COVID-era teaching plans for kindergartners this fall, it’s safe to say teachers and administrators would recieve low marks indeed. The…