The West Bend School District in Wisconsin had to pay Don Kirkegaard $175,000 a year, plus $15,000 in moving expenses, to leave his plum post…
Tag: education
On returning from a Thanksgiving holiday in New York City, gubernatorial policy analyst Kennedy Noem mused vaguely on “family, delicious food, new opportunities, and (now…
If Senator Jeff Monroe gets to recycle his creationism-in-disguise bills, then I get to recycle blog posts. The District 24 Senator from Pierre has brought…
Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) offers House Bill 1062, a not quite fully baked idea to promote financial education for all South Dakotans. The bill actually…
I’m not sure KSFY’s transcript is complete, but in her State of the State speech yesterday, Governor Kristi Noem appears not to have mentioned civics…
Speaking of the budget and the Legislature’s legal obligation to increase teacher pay 2% in Fiscal Year 2021, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells the Aberdeen…
In his 2019 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts notes that John Jay only contributed five of the 85 essays in…
An eager reader shares a print copy of the Thursday, December 12, Black Hills Pioneer indicating that the Spearfish School District is considering imposing drug…
The report on November general fund receipts from the Legislative Research Council shows that a timing glitch in insurance company tax and a pleasant imbalance…
Among the brag sheets Governor Kristi Noem has forced the Bureau of Finance and Management to post to its FY2021 budget webpage is a sheet…