Minnesotans are concerned about the cost of housing, and rightly so. With the median home price exceeding $400,000, the Twin Cities metro is the most expensive housing market in the Midwest. After adjusting for high income levels, the Twin Cities rank as the...
A new survey has found that those who identify as MAGA supporters and as liberal/progressive have found common ground on school choice policy. Conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of EdChoice, the spring 2026 poll asked respondents nationwide for their...
Chairman James Comer’s House Oversight Committee June 2026 staff report, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” reveals a governance philosophy that protected certain programs and their spending even when...
Said Abdullahi Ereg, a former international fugitive, made his first appearance in federal court today to face eight (8) felony counts of fraud in relation to the Feeding Our Future scandal. He pled not guilty. Together with his wife, Najmo Ahmed, Ereg is...
Guilty plea Vance Boelter pled guilty in federal court today to murdering Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Brooklyn Park home nearly a year ago. Boelter also pled to the attempted murder charges he faced for shooting...
The Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC) was created by the DFL led Minnesota Legislature in 2023. The Commission’s role is to review applications for clemency from convicted individuals and make recommendations to the Minnesota Board of Pardons (BOP)....
New social studies standards are coming to all Minnesota K-12 public schools this fall. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, the revised standards and benchmarks reflect a “shift away from standards that list a set of content students are...
A new analysis by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) gave 93 percent of 15 elementary teacher preparation programs in Minnesota an “A” or “A+” for adequately covering the five core components of scientifically based reading instruction. This is a...
In just five years, Minnesota’s education system has fallen from #7 nationally to #21, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2026 Kids Count Report. The highly regarded nonprofit Annie E. Casey Foundation releases a yearly report ranking states’...
New results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend (LTT) assessments in reading and math tell different stories for 9 and 13 year olds. Since the 1970s, NAEP has used these paper-based assessments to measure the academic...