I know one thing Secretary of Education Ben Jones needs to improve: his slides design. Take a look at what Secretary Jones threw up on…
Tag: education
Senate President Pro-Tem Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) staged a coup against a coup Tuesday. In the middle of the morning session of the Legislature’s Executive Board…
I didn’t hear anything about that “Next Big Thing” Kristi Noem said she’d be looking for, but the Governor’s first regular budget address did include…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee’s new education subgroup wants to spend some money. At yesterday’s tele-meeting, the education headhunters said they want to hire…
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…
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…