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Tag: education
One of the most serious policy debates amidst the coronavirus pandemic is whether the public health gains of keeping kids home from school are outweighed…
On Monday, the Belle Fourche school board, which has not mandated masks to prevent coronavirus spread, turned down the state’s offer to provide BinaxNOW rapid…
There is such a thing as a free lunch… at school in Aberdeen and Sioux Falls! The Aberdeen school district announced last week that all…
Instead of developing new schedules and delivery methods and deploying more resources to make education safer for kids, South Dakota’s schools seem hell-bent on protecting…
Like Aberdeen, Rapid City is having to weaken its coronavirus safety rules to keep the schools open: In a unanimous vote, the board decided that…
Governor Kristi Noem’s first executive order in 2019 reorganized two state agencies, moving the Office of Indian Education our of the Department of Education and…
In today’s no-surprise file, a draft study released yesterday indicates that reopening colleges has contributed to increased cases of coronavirus: The study, done jointly by…
The Hoven school district called off school yesterday and today due to four cases of coronavirus among its students. (Hoven reported one more positive test…
South Dakota’s wishful thinking on reopening schools and volleyball games as if coronavirus wouldn’t get us is falling apart. Supporting what I was hearing last…