Angela Kennecke reports on one GEAR UP employee’s support of suspicions raised by this blog and other observers about consultants siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal education grant…
Tag: corruption
South Dakota state government can take swift action against corruption when it wants to. Less than one month after catching the former state employee who stole a…
Tucked in Jeff Sveen’s initial response the state’s lawsuit against SDRC Inc. is this one little sentence: As you are aware, the Consulting Agreement between SDRC, Inc.…
The pattern continues: I report on the Mid-Central scandal, and Angela Kennecke gets the players to speak unflatteringly on camera. Last week I reported that state Board…
Since 2005, South Dakota has obtained millions of dollars in federal GEAR UP grants under the pretense of helping prepare American Indian youth for college. However, in a tradition going…
Angela Kennecke did not spotlight the most significant text from her 33-minute interview with Governor Dennis Daugaard and Secretary of Education Melody Schopp this week. Right out…
In the latest sign of his shameless bondage to his party patrons, Pat Powers responds to the grim, unflattering KELO-TV interview of Governor Dennis Daugaard and Secretary of…
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…
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…