In 2016, the South Dakota Legislature passed 2016 Senate Bill 129 requiring one hour of training in suicide awareness and prevention to obtain or renew…
Tag: Department of Education
The Department of Education appears to have kept the press out of its first big Hillsdale standards indoctrination session. But one social studies teacher who…
The April 17 meeting of the Board of Education Standards won’t be all fun and games with Hillsdale College. The board will also hear proposed…
For the first time in her four years as Governor, Kristi Noem has pulled someone directly from K-12 education to serve as Education Secretary. I’d…
Last summer, the Department of Education strangely and without explanation canceled a hearing on rule changes proposed to root out “divisive concepts” from the Department’s…
Governor Kristi Noem will begin her second term as Governor with her third Secretary of Education. Current Ed head Tiffany Sanderson is leaving the department…
DOE Hunt for “Divisive Concepts” Doesn’t Find Much; SD to Ban “Equity” from Standards and Contracts?
Last April, Governor Kristi Noem ordered her Department of Education to identify and eradicate from its materials all “divisive concepts“—the new sloppy code for critical race…
Governor Kristi Noem is still hiding a report that she ought to be eager to share. Back in April, the Governor ordered her Department of…
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…