Last week, I mentioned how, in his final State of the State speech, Gov. Walz touted as achievements a laundry list of spending increases which, in some cases, are blowing up in the faces of state and county agencies and school districts. The universal free...
Beginning in fall 2026, every K-12 public school in Minnesota will be required to align instruction with the state’s new social studies standards. School boards will have to decide how these standards, which now include ideological ethnic studies concepts, will...
In 2018, the Center for American Progress studied high school graduation requirements in each state and compared them to basic entrance requirements to universities in that state. The verdict? Most high school coursework requirements (including those in...
Center of the American Experiment’s public safety policy fellow David Zimmer joined law enforcement leaders, legislators and advocates today for a press conference at the State Capitol urging Minnesota law makers to pass legislation to help law enforcement...
Today at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two sentences are scheduled to be handed down in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. Judge Nancy Brasel is set to preside over both. Up first is Sharmake Jama, the lead defendant of the extended Jama...
Last month, the Star Tribune‘s mascot Stribby the Gray Duck was at the Capitol “lobbying in support of local news.” I have not seen Stribby on the register of lobbyists, but it’s a while since I’ve looked. Stribby was lobbying in favor of HF 4072 and SF 4183,...
Even though high schoolers need at least 8 hours of sleep per night, over three in four high schoolers are classified as having insufficient sleep schedules. Unsurprisingly, students who sleep less than they should tend to struggle with attention and cognitive...
National Teacher Appreciation Week is a time to recognize the commitment and impact of educators across the country. But beyond the celebratory headlines (guilty!), new survey data points to a more complicated picture inside America’s classrooms. Teachers in...
Last year, the Tax Committee in the Minnesota Senate, where the DFL holds a one seat majority, passed a bill that would have imposed the first “social media tax” in the nation. It didn’t go anywhere with Republicans holding half of the seats in the House, but...
Shireen Gandhi is still in charge of the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS). Ignore the cynical games being played with job titles, the situation is unchanged. MPR News reports, New Human Services commissioner out on medical leave with timing of pick under...