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…
Tag: education
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…
While Governor Noem and the Legislature wrangle over how to force more education on kids, Representative Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) wants to give kids less education.…
Last year a few cranky conservatives pitched an absurd, reactionary bill seeking to forbid teaching the kids the difference between boys and girls. Senate Education…
Representative Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) says the party affiliation of local polling place officials doesn’t matter: If there’s a shortage of workers, what difference does it…
Why are conservatives so committed to passing legislation that contradicts their own conservative principles and their own competing bills? Rep. Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) has…
Kaleb Weis can’t even be an original fascist. It appears that District 2 Republican rookie Representative Kaleb Weis cribbed his teacher code of silence, House…
Rookie Representative Kaleb Weis has another dumb idea. The Aberdeen Republican proposes House Bill 1113 and House Concurrent Resolution 1002, both of which call on local…
Governor Kristi Noem wants to slap school districts with another unfunded mandate. This week she got House State Affairs to file House Bill 1066, her…
District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…