The Minneapolis school district’s budget woes have received attention lately after school leadership announced plans for $115 million in cuts for the next school year. This budget gap doesn’t account…
After a multi-year revision process, the Minnesota Department of Education’s new K-12 social studies standards have been approved and will now go to district and charter schools for implementation into…
According to the Minnesota Department of Education, 77.5 percent of the students in St. Paul Schools are not proficient in math. The same data shows 69.2 percent of St. Paul…
There is no doubt that the 2023 legislative session was “transformational.” I have written here about the numerous new education mandates that the DFL-controlled legislature passed and what they mean…
Many people have asked me to comment on the civil litigation in state court between the state Department of Education (MDE) and the now-defunct free-food charity Feeding Our Future and…
The Office of Administrative Hearings announced today they are approving rulemaking from the Minnesota Department of Education regarding the proposed new social studies standards. Despite testimony from policy experts at…
A new state law passed by the DFL-controlled legislature in 2023 bans the use of Indian mascots and logos, unless schools receive a unanimous exemption from all of Minnesota’s tribal…
The never-ending (not so) merry-go-round.
An Edina school board meeting was adjourned early Monday night after protesters first prompted the board into recess. In response to the recess, protesters began chanting, “From the river to…
On average, students across the country know little about American history “and even less about the world,” write Frederick Hess and Mathew Levey with the American Enterprise Institute. This struggle…
The legislature appropriates more money, the unions grab it for salaries, the school board cuts middle school band, and everyone blames the legislature for underfunding. Rinse and repeat.
Uncovering Minnesota’s extreme laws regarding medicalized treatment for gender-distressed young people.
An administrative law judge (ALJ) is considering proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 academic standards in social studies. He will weigh the changes against statutory requirements for revising academic standards and…
Thanks to a public data request, American Experiment has the receipts on examples the Minnesota Department of Education’s Social Studies Standards Committee wrote to guide educators on social studies instruction.…
Could this be the end for the free-food nonprofit Partners in Nutrition? In a ruling published last month by the state Court of Appeals, the court ruled that the state…
Proposed controversial K-12 social studies standards are one step closer to formal adoption following the recent release of the Minnesota Department of Education’s Statement of Need and Reasonableness (SONAR). (For…
Gov. Tim Walz tweeted on October 4 that “We need to remember our history, not erase it.” If Walz really believed that, he would find the statue of Christopher Columbus,…
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…
School choice is making waves across the country thanks to union boss Randi Weingarten.
Over the weekend, our own Katherine Kersten appeared on Fox News’ Fox & friends program to discuss the state’s recently enacted ethnic studies mandate. Click on the 4-minute long video,…
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…
With the latest statewide test scores showing more than half of Minnesota students not meeting basic proficiency standards in reading and math, some are rationalizing the discouraging results by claiming…
Last Friday, I appeared on our new podcast in which, among other things, we discussed Gov. Walz’s bizarre recent appearance at the Iowa State Fair, where he wandered around bellowing…
More than half of Minnesota students don’t meet basic proficiency in reading or math, according to newly released 2023 statewide assessment results by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). As…