The South Dakota Legislature briefly considered a Scott Walker/Wisconsin-style ban on collective bargaining for public employees in 2012. That bill quickly failed. But our Republican…
Tag: education
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
Ardys Gosch and other moneyed Aberdonians bankrolling anti-immigrant rallies are working against economic development and education in South Dakota. Northern State University touts research from…
October 14: Eager reader Rorschach reacts to Melody Schopp’s retirement by asking, “In the game of musical chairs, which Pierre bureaucrat/GOP Party functionary will get…
A 7.3% enrollment drop suggests Presentation College is too dependent on athletics: After record enrollment last fall, Presentation College saw 60 fewer students this year.…
I find two interesting statistics so far in the report on how well South Dakota’s public K-12 school districts met the state’s accountability standards for putting…
South Dakota’s law school will be staying in Vermillion… sort of. At its final meeting today, USD’s Law School Task Force rejected the idea of…
Oh! Tri-Valley superintendent Mike Lodmel revises and extends his explanation of his free-laptops-for-homeschoolers enrollment-enhancement scheme! In response to the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s request…
In what promises to be a wide-ranging meeting next week Thursday and probably Friday, the Government Operations and Audit Committee will discuss Tri-Valley school superintendent…