Another Cock-eyed Ranking for Minnesota Education

By July 24, 2026Commentary2 min read

Various media sources that are actually an arm of the Dem party are doing their best to create fake rankings that portray Dem-run states in a far better light than the truth shows.  After the bogus business climate rankings by CNBC, now we see that part of that rating was an absurd ranking on education that puts Minnesota 10th.  As usual you have to dig a bit to find out how they construct and weight these rankings.  The main item should be are students learning anything, but it isn’t.  Minnesota’s test scores are plummeting at about the fastest rate in the country.  We have a severe attendance problem.  The state’s response has been to encourage schools to move students up grades whether they have learned anything or not and to graduate them from high school, when many can’t even read at third grade level.  This problem is most acute in the Twin Cities.  As you might imagine, this harms low-income and minority students the most.  These students need a good education to have hopes of getting solid jobs and moving up the income ladder.  Instead Minnesota literally could give a shit if they learn anything, other than woke bullshit and to vote Dem.

Two of the great analysts at the Center for the American Experiment have deconstructed the pathetic methodology and results of the CNBC rankings, among other things noting the inconsistency from year-to-year, the lack of transparency on weighting and the failure to demographically adjust results.  (Wigfall Post)   (Phelan Post)

But as I said, CNBC is part of a far-left organization run by NBC, and its only agenda is to advance the Dem message.

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