The Trump administration’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Dept. of Education and eliminate its cabinet-level bureaucracy has stirred up headlines that such a move would strand K-12 students without…
It was an unusual scene this morning at the state capitol, as the state’s two-term elected Attorney General, Keith Ellison, testified for nearly two hours regarding a 54-minute meeting he…
The Minnesota Department of Education will not comply with federal reforms that include curbing the use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in K-12 education.
The perennial refrain regarding Minnesota’s public education system is that we must fully fund education and that teachers need more resources in the classroom. So, common sense says that the…
An October 2023 interview clip with state Attorney General Keith Ellison on WCCO radio resurfaces in the midst of a new Feeding Our Future scandal. The clip raises new questions…
Another leaked audio recording links Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scandal. This much earlier recording (June 2021) raises more questions about Ellison’s public statements…
The administration of MN Gov. Tim Walz went out of their way to praise the help given by Feeding Our Future (FOF), the free-food fraudsters, amidst the Afghan refugee crisis…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) agreed to pay Center of the American Experiment $7,000 to settle a lawsuit over their failure to fulfill a data practices request. American Experiment…
This month’s dramatic court verdicts in the Feeding Our Future {FOF} case (“guilty on all counts”) don’t mark the end of the saga. In Churchillian terms, it’s more like “the…
In the latest episode of the American Experiment Podcast, we break down some of the highlights from Governor Walz’s first stop along his midwest ‘red states’ tour. While Minnesota faces…
A proposed federal scholarship tax credit bill would expand parental choice to all 50 states, providing families a funding option that could be used for a wide variety of educational…
Flickr, Photo By: U.S. Department of State (IIP Bureau) On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to reduce 1,315 staff positions, bringing the agency’s total workforce reduction to…
Your correspondent was there for Day 3 of Aimee Bock’s testimony at the blockbuster Feeding Our Future trial going on at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The founder and…
That seems to be the implication of reporting by the Minnesota Star Tribune from inside the Federal courtroom during the current free-food fraud trial. The Star Tribune‘s Jeffrey Meitrodt reports:…
The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV is out with a story on how Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman (Ward 6) went to bat on behalf of Feeding Our…
The next (and perhaps final) chapter in Minnesota’s journey to dramatically change how we teach children is about to begin. The journey began in December 2020 when the Minnesota Department…
The second courtroom trial got underway yesterday at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Opening statements were heard in the trial of Aimee Bock, Defendant No. 1 in the case,…
Since Republican Rep. Lisa Demuth is Speaker of the House, she gets to control the order of bills introduced at the re-start of the 2025 session. House Republicans communicated their…
Two videos, both produced in 2021, show the Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking about his advocacy work on behalf of private companies providing social services funded by state government (taxpayers). Here…
In a press release issued last week, the state’s Attorney General, Keith Ellison, announced a settlement in which the free-food nonprofit Youth Leadership Academy, d/b/a Gar Gaar Family Services (GGFS),…
Photo from the U.S. Department of Education via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0) School closure policies aggressively lobbied for by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and specifically AFT…
The U.S. Department of Education has failed its audit for the third year in a row due to accounting errors, reports the department's Office of Inspector General.
The website fatehformayor.com has gone live and Blois Olson reports that the state senator has a city hall press conference scheduled for tomorrow (Monday). We had earlier reported that Sen.…
As calls to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education continue, two questions likely come to mind: Will it happen this time around (there were legislative attempts in 2017 and 2021…