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…
Tag: education
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…
Dr. Harris’s working paper on the economic illogic of vouchers includes one sentences that will cause heartburn for constituents of the vast majority of South…
Vouchers, the transfers of public dollars to private schools that religious conservatives like Kristi Noem and Lee Schoenbeck so eagerly promote, don’t produce better education…