Students who attend private schools have, on average, better civic outcomes than students who attend public schools, according to a new statistical meta-analysis published in the journal Educational Psychology Review. “While civic values can be inculcated in...
An attempt to rush through legislation transferring state forest land to the White Earth Band of Ojibwe appears to have hit a dead end for this session. The DFL-sponsored measure seeks to repeal the statute establishing the 160,000 acre White Earth State...
Last week I noted that, because of the “The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature…we actually see some rather profound debates up at the state capitol these days.” Once again, Minn Post’s Peter Callaghan provides a good...
The first trial involving seven (7) defendants (out of the 70 charged, so far) in the free-food scandal began Monday morning at the Federal courthouse in Minneapolis. All seven were affiliated with a now-closed Shakopee restaurant, Empire Cuisine and Market....
Three years and $190 billion of federal taxpayer funding later, K-12 schools face the sudden reality that Covid gives and, just as certainly, takes away. Yet Education Week and the news media continue to sound the alarm over the impending reality that schools...
The DFL is proposing yet another tax hike. HF 3566 would, MPR News reports: …update Minnesota’s current electronics waste law, which was passed back in 2007 — the year the first iPhone was released — and focuses mainly on televisions and computers. The bill...
Will she vote remotely from jail? KVRR and other news outlets are reporting that Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) has been arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Detroit Lakes is the county seat of Becker County and sits some 217 miles from her Woodbury home....
There used to be a longstanding tradition of election policy bills requiring bipartisan support in order to pass. Because election law by definition is so fraught with partisan politics, it was generally understood by governors from Arne Carlson to Mark Dayton...
A bill making its way through the Minnesota legislature would require setting exam scores to ensure that 95 percent of education paraprofessionals working on their statewide credential pass the assessments the first time they take them. Paraprofessionals (also...
Mahad Ibrahim will be tried separately, due to the unavoidable unavailability of his attorney. The Federal judge in the Feeding Our Future case issued an order yesterday, excusing the defendant in the trial beginning Monday morning in Federal Court in...