Along with seeking $24.5 million to saddle faculty, staff, and students with artificial intelligence, the South Dakota Board of Regents has adopted a new policy…
Tag: education
Last December, the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District barely survived a dissolution vote. But residents have petitioned again to force the ORR school board to submit that…
This Session, the Legislature passed House Bill 1313 to require schools to subject children to anti-abortion propaganda about fetuses. HB 1313 forbade schools from giving…
Rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) is proposing Senate Joint Resolution 507 to have voters say this November whether they want to semi-replace property tax…
With the Legislature still struggling to coalesce around any plan to lower property taxes, rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) proposes punting the issue to…
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,…
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…