Data for Progress surveyed 1,199 likely voters nationwide last month on their views of censoring discussions of racism in schools. I am heartened to read…
Tag: civics
Governor Kristi Noem has offered to build divisively conservative Hillsdale College of Michigan an entire campus in South Dakota. Some Republican legislators think it would…
I think Team Noem just pulled a budget switcheroo to benefit her Hillsdale College cronies in Michigan. Back in 2021, Governor Noem said she wanted…
My Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) disappoints me by joining a majority of his Republican redistricting colleagues in voting not to let us mere civilians touch…
The Noem Administration is showing its apartheid-y whiteys in overriding the recommendations of educators and deleting numerous references to American Indians from the new K-12…
GOP Appropriators Concerns Unfounded: DOE Never Intended to Seek Federal Grants for Civics Education
Republican Appropriators made a fuss over nothing last week when they issued a grandstanding letter to the Department of Education last week warning them not…
Be still my beating heart: some South Dakota legislators actually want to turn down federal money! Yesterday’s Joint Appropriations meeting included a passel of “letters of…
The state is offering $200,000—less than a quarter of the money allocated for Governor Kristi Noem’s dubious civics curriculum program—to help schools actually teach civics.…
Understanding Kristi Noem’s priorities requires looking at just two bills, House Bill 1282 and House Bill 1279. HB 1282 proposes the $5 million our Governor…