Mid-Central Educational Cooperative lawyer Scott Swier sends to the media the forensic audit of MCEC conducted by Eide Bailly. Swier accompanies this audit with a press release…
Tag: corruption
Update 13:25 CST: Hold on! The editorial I discuss below was originally published by the Rapid City Journal on November 15! The Bismarck Tribune reprinted it on November…
Bob Ellis dismisses the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from 51st to 39th in the nation as another liberal plot to expand…
I have a tummy full of turkey and cranberries to keep down; I really should not be reading Dakota War College. But my tummy is soothed…
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…
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…