In an even more substantive snuffing of gun-nuttery, Senate Education yesterday killed Senate Bill 34, Senator Brent Hoffman’s (R-9/Hartford) really bad idea to require every…
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Ten years ago, ammosexuals in the South Dakota Legislature enacted a school gunslinger program, allowing schools to let armed civilians (“school sentinels”) patrol their hallways…
The 2016 sales tax for teacher pay deal was supposed to be a historic reform of K-12 school funding that would pull South Dakota teacher…
While Republican Majority Leader Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) is trying to expand the Capitol Complex Commission, the Department of Education is making some room for…
Among the first bills from the Governor is House Bill 1022, in which the Department of Education requests the $6 million in emergency funding to…
Dibs on #1 bill for the Senate goes to Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen), who strikes the hopper early to please the all-important Northerners among his…
Governor Kristi Noem’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposes adding just 5.7 new full-time equivalents to the 14,052.9 FTEs allocated to this year’s state payroll. To…
Red-State Strategy: Dumber, Sicker, Poorer, But in Control of Electoral College, Senate, and Courts!
Republicans maintain political power by resisting democracy and exploiting minoritarian features of our political system. As long as they can control a majority of smaller,…
Speaking of history, Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, says we need to teach a fuller, richer…
Secretary of Education Joseph Graves has never been a great friend of teachers. Once upon a time, he wanted to strip teachers of labor protections…