When one of Trump’s minor education flunkies came to Madison last month to praise shop class, when Mike Rowe tours our tech schools to promote…
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Superintendent Henry Eggert came to my candidate forum last week. He also attended my opponent’s eat-and-greet at the Millstone last Monday. Superintendent Eggert won’t be…
Last month I reported that South Dakota’s college campuses are the whitest in America and that what relatively few racial minorities we do have in our…
In this week’s random reading, I happened upon a 1976 article from The Radical Teacher that tangentially offers an explanation for why Koch/Trump Republicans view a…
On my milk run to the corner Cenex last night, I found a “NO on IM 25” display on the counter with a whole packet…
Another new Issue Memo from the Legislative Research Council outlines the five major differences between the new Every Student Succeeds Act and the failed No…
LRC to Present Issue Memos Monday on Wind Energy, Federal Ed Laws, and Neighboring State Tax Systems
The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature will hear three juicy Issue Memos at next week. The memos aren’t up yet, but the agenda…
Break out the chicken suits—Kristi Noem is already ducking debates! Democrat Billie Sutton’s gubernatorial campaign sends out a press release bemoaning his Republican opponent’s refusal…
Eureka school district voters rejected a $300,000 property tax opt-out in June. That vote didn’t make their school’s looming deficit go away. But the locals…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says our K-12 education system is failing the majority of students by not preparing them all to get post-secondary degrees: Are we…