Not all the indicted figures in the Feeding Our Future case stuck around to face justice. According to media reports, at least three of the sixty defendants have left the…
As students leave the classroom for the summer, families are considering leaving their children’s previous learning environment altogether. Almost half of parents (45.9 percent) nationwide have reported that at least…
Xcel Energy is reconsidering its future “clean energy” investments after the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a much smaller electricity rate increase than the utility company wanted, placing doubt…
“Investment” is an almost totally devalued term nowadays, at least in political discourse. For politicians, every single penny of spending is an “investment” because saying you “invested” several million or…
A nearly packed room of engaged parents and residents respectfully voiced their concerns over explicit content in books at the Forestview Middle School library at the latest meeting of the…
This is the third in a series of four reports intended to document violent weekend activity in Minneapolis — coinciding with efforts by city leaders to draw more people back…
On Friday evening, five young college women were in Minneapolis shopping in preparation for a wedding the following day. As they drove on Lake Street, a vehicle that had just passed…
Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas and declared the…
DFL legislators have been on the warpath for years. So the newly passed ban on using Native American names and mascots in public schools undoubtedly ranked as one of the…
Last year, I wrote about how Minneapolis and St. Paul lost residents in 2021. Census Bureau data show that Minneapolis lost 6,049 residents from 2020 to 2021 and St. Paul…
The first post I did (Nov. 2021) in my latest stint with the Center cataloged the $3,000 plus in unpaid court fines racked up by then-state Rep. John D. Thompson…
Connecting more dots between Feeding Our Future defendants and political figures in Minnesota. Back in March, the U.S. Attorney announced the latest batch of Feeding Our Future indictments. The batch…
Yesterday, the Star Tribune ran a story about Xcel Energy’s plan to relicense both of its nuclear power plants in Minnesota (Monticello, and Prairie Island) to run for a total…
A strong majority (74 percent) of Minnesotans favor a school choice policy where parents can use tax dollars to send their child to a public or private school that best…
Pending a lawsuit against a recent provision that bars certain religious institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, the state recently issued an injunction that prevents “state…
Despite recent headlines, “teacher misery is not uniform across school sectors in America,” writes Mike McShane for Forbes. A new national poll by Morning Consult and Ed Choice reveals that…
Join Opportunity for All Kids and Center of the American Experiment for the second annual 7k for Kids Fun Run on Saturday, October 11th in Plymouth. There will be a…
Minnesota’s fraud problem made national headlines as criminals took advantage of our state’s generous welfare programs and lax oversight to steal billions of taxpayer dollars. Join American Experiment’s fraud expert…
As part of American Experiment’s Minnesota School Board Toolkit, this video walks through how to access reading and math proficiency results for a school or district.
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…