Senator Jim Mehlhaff (R-24/Pierre) follows through on a proposal he made last fall and files Senate Bill 99, which would replace property taxes levied by…
Tag: education
Our teachers are plenty handsome, but… South Dakota is less attractive to teachers than any of its neighboring states except for one—Minnesota! So said the…
Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just…
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…
Remember, part of the reason our Project 2025 White House is killing the Department of Education is that, under previous administrations, the Department of Education…
Our ridiculous Trumpist racism has cost South Dakota some international students: …international student enrollment increased by 23 students this fall at South Dakota Mines, a…
Voters in the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school district have decided not to dissolve their rural district. The final vote, canvassed Wednesday by the board, was 363 votes…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s proposed budget assumes the state will take in 2.4% more revenue in Fiscal Year 2027 than it is on track to take…
My high school physics teacher once admonished me not to get a graduate degree in education.Get a real degree, he said. I’m not sure the…
Speaking of stealth vouchers, South Dakota started pumping public dollars into private religious schools in the 2016–2017 school year. That public investment in private schools…