Uh oh: one of the policies being pushed to improve education for tribal youth in South Dakota is charter schools. South Dakota News Watch reports that NDN…
Tag: education
Maybe the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s usurpation of the Secretary of Education’s authority will be good for South Dakota. GOAC chair Senator Ryan Maher…
South Dakota still isn’t meeting its target teacher salary. In 2016, we raised our state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% with the goal of…
If you had any doubts about the value of South Dakota News Watch’s effort to provide independent long-form journalism, those doubts should disappear before these…
South Dakota News Watch reports on the challenges rural school districts face in adequately educating their dwindling youth populations. Nutshell: decreased funding, teacher turnover, students…
If the Legislature is serious about micromanaging the Department of Education to produce better learning outcomes, perhaps they’ll follow Italy’s lead and require our public…
In good news, Worthington voters finally overcame some strong and self-destructive anti-immigrant sentiment to approve spending $38.7 million to build the classroom space necessary to…
A motivational speaker, an educational technologist, and a social justice warrior against sex-trafficking walk into a bar… and Kristi Noem calls it a conference. How…
The Legislature is showing no mercy to Kristi Noem and Ben Jones. In apparent recognition of the Governor and her Education Secretary’s failure to drive…
I can finally put my SDSU math major and teaching degree to their fullest use: helping my eighth-grader with her algebra homework. But I also…