As Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) ramps up the culture war by peddling the anti-abortion distraction on our university campuses, Senator Angie Buhl O’Donnell (D-15/Sioux Falls) offers the one line…
Category: South Dakota
Dana Ferguson attended today’s meeting of the scandal-plagued Mid-Central Educational Cooperative in Platte today and got the big news that the MCEC board accepted a resignation from former…
Don’t get my crabby analysis wrong: the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students says a lot of good things in the final report it issued…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
DFP Full Analysis of Blue Ribbon K-12 Panel Final Report: Most Important Blue Ribbon Finding: South Dakota Must Raise Teacher Pay Crunching Blue Ribbon Numbers:…
DFP Full Analysis of Blue Ribbon K-12 Panel Final Report: Most Important Blue Ribbon Finding: South Dakota Must Raise Teacher Pay Crunching Blue Ribbon Numbers:…
Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a curious response Monday to Democratic minority leaders Senator Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke) and Rep. Spence Hawley (D-7/Brookings). The minority leaders had issued a response last…
The evaluation of SD GEAR UP’s effectiveness didn’t turn up all snake eyes. According to responses from a focus group made of Indian students participating in GEAR…
The 2015 SD GEAR UP Program Evaluation conducted by the USD Government Research Bureau issued in August 2015 concluded that South Dakota wasn’t getting much demonstrable bang for the…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp rejects Rep. Lance Russell’s call for her to resign over the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal. She tells Dana Ferguson that good leaders don’t “back away…