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…
Tag: education
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…
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…