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A parental rights group and Christian scholars are criticizing the new requirements for a teaching license in Minnesota.

It was obvious early in the covid epidemic that the benefits of lockdowns were speculative and hypothetical, while the costs were large and undeniable. Now that the dust has settled, those costs can be quantified. My staff has produced two new papers on the costs of the covid shutdowns in Minnesota. While their analyses are state-specific, it is reasonable to assume that their findings would be reflected in other states,

From early in the covid epidemic, it seemed obvious that the shutdowns ordered by nearly all governors and many municipalities did little good and caused tremendous damage. Experience has borne out that conclusion, but almost everywhere, governments have moved on without any accounting for the mistakes that were made. American Experiment has just released two papers that address the consequences of covid shutdowns. While their specific focus is on Minnesota,

[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight a recent Minnesota proposal that would require public schools to teach toxic racialism.]

Parents are spreading “disinformation and hysteria around critical race theory,” a former teacher recently told NPR. “Teachers can barely afford the resources for their own curriculum [so] it’s laughable that they’d shell out money [to teach] a college course,” he said. College, of course, is the place where radical activists claim that critical race theory is found, not in K-12 classrooms.

Parents rightly wonder whether their child will be taught that character and behavior matter, too, or just skin color and gender.

Proposed licensing requirements in Minnesota scrapped the existing "Standards of Effective Practice," in favor of standards which place an emphasis on racial consciousness.

I dont know that there has ever been a place and time in American history when only racists were permitted to teach in the public schools. Mississippi in, say, 1935? I dont know, maybe. But to my knowledge they had no purity test. Contrast that with Minnesota in 2022, where the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board is considering a new standard that would only allow people who profess

An agreement between the Minneapolis Public Schools and Minneapolis teachers union stipulates White teachers and staff be laid off first, regardless of seniority.

Teachers’ unions are pushing a radical Marxist-inspired agenda that is destroying public education in America.