Democrats are taking another swing at repealing South Dakota’s food tax. District 15’s dynamic House Dems Erik Muckey and Kadyn Wittman offer House Bill 1281,…
Tag: education
Rookie Representative Nicole Uhre-Balk (D-32/Rapid City) demonstrates efficient lawmaking by changing one word to make a ceiling-to-floor change in K-12 education funding. Rep. Uhre-Balk’s House…
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…
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…