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…
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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…
Former teacher and school administrator Randy Zitterkopf says Christian schools are great… and under a trick headline in South Dakota Standard, he says the real Christian…
Heck and darn—the National Bureau of Economic Research posts a working paper that says we nerds don’t get our revenge in the world of work; the…
Two years ago, a bunch of teachers produced a reasonable revision of South Dakota’s K-12 social studies standards, only to see their work ripped up…
At the beginning of her gubernatoriat, Governor Kristi Noem moved the Office of Indian Education from the Department of Education to the Department of Tribal…