Are graduation rates reliable?
The 2023 graduation rate was 83.3 percent, a 0.3 percentage point decrease compared to last year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Part of the dip “includes students who…
The 2023 graduation rate was 83.3 percent, a 0.3 percentage point decrease compared to last year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Part of the dip “includes students who…
The more the Met Council attempts to change the narrative on the Southwest Light Rail Transit boondoggle, the more it remains the same. The latest embarrassing case in point was…
Legislation proposed in the 2024 session to make Minnesota a sanctuary state faces stiff opposition according to the March 2024 Thinking Minnesota poll. The proposal to prohibit any Minnesota entity…
A June 2023 poll from Pew Research Center found that support for solar panels among Republicans has fallen by 17 percent since 2016. Support for wind saw a 20 percent…
Last week, the Star Tribune carried a story titled “Women’s salaries are lower, and their expenses are higher. Here’s how to push back.” This one article invoked both the “Pink…
Enrollment in Minnesota’s public schools has declined again, according to data recently uploaded by the Minnesota Department of Education. For the 2023-24 school year, public schools lost roughly 0.2 percent…
State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
Gov. Tim Walz traveled to Owatonna High School for his sixth State of the State address last night. He heaped praise on the Owatonna community for passing a $104 million…
Last year, I wrote that: In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county…
A bill up in both the House and Senate Finance committees this week would require statewide academic health standards. Currently, school boards are responsible for adopting local standards for student…
The chaos of illegal immigration is starting to show up in Minneapolis as newly arrived immigrants from the Southern border line up daily in Minneapolis looking for work. But without…
The Circle of Education Funding in Minneapolis Public Schools is starting to look and act like a spiral. Overspending on the last teacher contract has caused two years of budget…
Bill Glahn gives an update on the largest Covid fraud case in America, Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future scandal