Art Marmorstein, NSU history prof and AAN columnist, notes that the results of the first Common Core-aligned statewide standardized tests seem to suggest disaster has struck South…
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AAN’s Katherine Grandstrand* notices among the agenda items for the Board of Regents meeting here in Aberdeen today a discussion of proposed legislation for 2016.…
A great building shell game moves one step closer to reality this week as the Board of Regents takes up at its Aberdeen meeting today the plan to…
Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute offers some national teacher job numbers that show that public layoffs in response to the recession have left the U.S.…
I’ve reported previously, and have heard from multiple sources, that Silver Bullet LLC, a Las Vegas petition-circulator company, is carrying the fake 18%-rate-cap petition and the…
Ah, so maybe that’s why Pat’s server was so slow…. Evidently eager to track down more information about all those corporations Scott Westerhuis created to shuffle federal education…
My report on Mitchell superintendent Joe Graves’s six-figure moonlighting as Teaching American History grant coordinator for Mid-Central Educational Cooperative got him some ink in the Mitchell…
Various business closures around the state have raised concerns about too-tight labor supply. But the announcement that Dakota Lodging is closing the 51-year-old Aberdeen Ramada Inn appears to reflect too…
Chad Haber faces two felony charges for petition perjury. Since he says he has no money and is listed as representing himself on the Hughes County…
Scott Westerhuis’s apparent murder-suicide and the burning of his lavish-beyond-visible-means house on September 17 has sent investigators and journalists digging deeper to find what sort of sins or errors…