Last week I wrote about the looming budget battle in Minneapolis resulting from an increase in spending at the same time as declining commercial property values were dragging down commercial…
It’s National School Choice Week — the annual celebration of effective K-12 education options and the school choice policies that allow families the opportunity to access the learning environment that…
The Biden administration’s reckless EPA regulations endanger us all.
Minnesota loses a big opportunity for investment due to an anti-business environment.
In early August, four of the largest electric grid operators in America warned that President Biden’s proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing fossil-fueled power…
Name Image Likeness (NIL) reforms have opened up a gusher of cash for formerly “amateur” college football athletes. With little debate or notice, top-level college football has gone fully professional.…
Minnesota’s Top 5 ranking for business by CNBC caught attention recently, as my colleague John Phelan wrote about here. But the state’s drop in the education subindex over the years…
It’s too late to do anything to lure back the owners of a proposed $440 million wood processing mill that pulled out of the northern Minnesota project earlier this year…
I recently wrote about another round of assessment results capturing the continual fall in academic achievement among our country’s students. While the declines were certainly exacerbated by government policy responses…
The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has supercharged claims that carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for making wildfires worse. However, my friend Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center for Public…
Now that the dust has settled on this whirlwind of a legislative session, it’s time to unpack several key provisions in the education omnibus bill and what they mean for…
The 2023 U.S. News & World Report “Best States Rankings” study has identified Minnesota as the number 5 best state in the country. The overall ranking factors in crime &…
Grade retention remains a controversial policy, with the debate focusing on whether or not it is effective over time and actually results in positive achievement and adjustment outcomes. In Mississippi,…
Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that…
Teachers’ unions and other school choice opponents use every excuse they can to limit empowering families with greater education choice, including that such programs don’t benefit rural areas because options…
In August 2022, President Biden signed the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” a $370 billion spending package that will do little to reduce inflation, but it will do a lot to…
A plurality of parents think $8,000 or less is what should be annually spent per student in their state’s public schools, according to a 2022 national survey conducted by EdChoice.…
Minnesota per pupil spending is now at $14,378, according to preliminary data for FY 2021 released by the U.S. Census Bureau. This continues at least a 10-year upward trend of…
Minnesotans googling break-up advice peaks from October 16-23, according to a study of Google trends data from Oct. 24, 2021- Oct. 23, 2022 by HerNorm.com. The relationship website analyzed search…
Mississippi black and Hispanic students continue to outperform Minnesota black and Hispanic students in fourth-grade math and reading and eighth-grade reading, according to 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)…
Counting the economic costs of government policy in the midst of COVID.
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…
In June this year, American Experiment released a report showing that excessive regulations are to blame for the high cost of licensed center-based care. Specifically, we noted that strict child-staff…
The past year has been an especially good year for income tax reform. About half of all states — and counting — have cut their income taxes between 2021 and…