South Dakotans appear to be responding with enthusiasm to my urging that they sign up for the panel Governor Kristi Noem is wastefully summoning to…
Tag: education
The Department of Education indicated it would take nominations for the new K-12 social studies standards commission that Governor Kristi Noem hopes will produce standards more…
In another sign of its ideological disconnect from its basic duties, the Rapid City School Board has on its November 2 agenda a resolution to withdraw…
South Dakota state government and many schools failed to take coronavirus seriously and provide students with robust hybrid learning opportunities amidst the pandemic. That failure…
From 2010 to 2020, white folks declined from 85.9% of South Dakota’s population to 80.7%. The racial/ethnic breakdown of our K-12 student population given in…
I can understand pundits from the national conservatariat lazily spouting their boilerplate about “hard-left activists” taking over education in South Dakota. Most conservatives nowadays aren’t…
National Review must be getting under Kristi Noem’s skin. Last week the conservative reporter Nate Hochman picked our part-time Governor apart for her faux-conservative corporate opportunism,…
The NDN Collective and the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition organized about a hundred people to march in the rain in Pierre Monday to protest…
In general, I find statewide curriculum standards more bother than they are worth. Good teachers don’t need any external committee or board to tell them…
President Biden isn’t mandating vaccines for all teachers and school staff, but he’s asking governors to require such school vaccinations… and to quit being bullies:…