Three years ago, Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) won passage of legislation to protect Lakota students’ right to wear Native regalia at school ceremonies. This year…
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Less than 24 hours on the job, and President Joe Biden has already done all sorts of good for South Dakota. Here’s what South Dakota…
When Governor Kristi Noem launched the Legislative Session with her Trumpist attack on teachers, she called for new civics education focused on American exceptionalism: Students should be…
Maybe instead of blaming teachers for Donald Trump’s insurrection and pretending she alone can write civics curriculum to equip kids for the challenges of civic debate…
After Sioux Falls school board president Cynthia Mickelson criticized Governor Kristi Noem’s “inexcusable” attack on teachers in her State of the State Address Tuesday, Governor…
Governor Kristi Noem imported her Trumpist laugh line about the need to fight Communism through better civics education into her State of the State speech…
South Dakota continues to fall short of the statutory target teacher salary established in the big Daugaard reform of 2016. According to the Department of…
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota held their first online Delegate Assembly last month (online! thank you, boards, for doing your part to prevent…
I thought the Governor’s K-12 Connect plan to use federal coronavirus relief dollars to provide free home Internet to lower-income families was more in the…
Here’s a puzzler: the Madison Central School District alerted families on Thursday of two cases of coronavirus in the schools, one in the elementary, one…