South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
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Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…
Hey, executive-order hawks! Care to shout at Governor Dennis Daugaard a bit this morning? While browsing the Governor’s recent executive orders, I found that on June 12,…
Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and Representative Kristi Noem voted not to shut down the government yesterday. The good news is that it looks like…
Think Rick Knobe’s nuts for proposing a state income tax to raise teacher pay? Think again. A new report suggests that a state income tax…
Certain oil and gas boosters want South Dakota to believe, against most evidence, that expanding oil exploration would bring us the milk and honey of the…
Convinced that there’s too much testing in public education, the Minnesota Legislature this year cut its state Department of Education’s testing budget from $42 million to…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t heeding the Governor’s admonition to shush until the Governor’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel issues its policy proposals. Rep. Schoenbeck offers his…