The South Dakota Board of Education adopted new standards for world language yesterday. In a sign of their significance, this standards review process drew one…
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One thing Governor Kristi Noem didn’t get yesterday was her civics test. Wrangling until the last day, the Senate finally killed House Bill 1066 on a…
Amidst a lull in audience questions at today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel, I took the mic after a question about abolishing the federal Department of Education (no,…
Governor Kristi Noem’s high school civics test mandate, House Bill 1066, took an interesting turn Tuesday. After House Education whittled Noem’s sloppy bill down to…
Among the bills on the Senate’s Crossover Day agenda is Senate Bill 179, which sets the maximum tax levies for school boards and the target…
Civics is apparently losing traction as a campaign issue for Governor Kristi Noem. Seeing that Noem’s big civics test has been watered down to ten…
South Dakota’s latest expression of Legislative trans-panic came yesterday from the House, which voted 39–30 to ban teachers from talking about “gender dysphoria.” House Bill…
Lobbyist extraordinaire Jeremiah M. Murphy stepped before House Education yesterday and made exactly the arguments that I made against Representative Kaleb Weis’s ill-advised Teacher Code…