Robbinsdale school closings loom amid board member chaos
In just two weeks, the Robbinsdale School Board will have to decide which two elementary schools in the district will close. The closing was made necessary due to the district’s…
In just two weeks, the Robbinsdale School Board will have to decide which two elementary schools in the district will close. The closing was made necessary due to the district’s…
Crime and public safety are universal concerns that transcend politics and race. But more specifically in the black community — in the United States and Minnesota — is the overwhelming…
Minnesota’s own Rep. Ilhan Omar urged the Biden administration to cancel federal student loan debt last week. As the NAACP helpfully pointed out, one of the beneficiaries of such a…
‘Raise Our Standards’ tour draws substantial crowds, support.
Duluth Superintendent of Schools John Magas is proud that his “community” shut down a debate before it even started. He should be fired. The man in charge of educating 7,300…
BLM tries to shut down Moorhead stop, one arrested NAACP pressures venues in Duluth to cancel Over 100 have turned out at each stop of the Raise Our Standards tour…
A cabal of progressives wants to rewrite how students learn about their American heritage.
Police in three Southern Minnesota cities are pushing back against some recommendations growing out of a series of community meetings on law enforcement held in the aftermath of protests over…
The Councillors can walk away from all this, whether they feel any shame about it or not. But, if activists like Al Flowers, Alicia Smith, and Lisa Clemons are correct…
While Minneapolis city council and 'Self-described liberals' are dreaming big dreams of abolishing the police and replacing them with an undefined “new transformative model for cultivating safety”, people are dying. How…
Minnesota Congressman Jason Lewis recently voted in favor of a bill which (in the words of the press release issued by his office) “aims to lower our prison systems’ recidivism…
Duluth Public Schools’ decision to remove two classic American novels from the district’s curriculum has been ripped nationally. But now the de facto classroom censorship of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”…
The University of Minnesota Duluth Office of Diversity and Inclusion makes a big deal out of Banned Books Week each fall. In fact, the office goes so far as to…
The National Coalition Against Censorship may be a highly politicized, New York-based, group of artistic, educational, religious and labor organizations that skews far left. But give NCAC credit for taking…
Sad news reported by the Star Tribune: “Duluth schools remove ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from curriculum.” Why are Duluth’s students no longer going to be assigned the…
Charter schools are the “polite cousins of segregation,” in the words of Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Last year the National Association for the Advancement of…
I attended the Minneapolis mayoral candidates debate today at the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota. The best part was the excellent questions asked by the moderators, Larry Jacobs…
The Chicago Tribune just penned an excellent editorial in support of reformer Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education: A few weeks ago, Massachusetts voters rejected a major…