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…
Tag: education
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…
Our Catholic friends at Aberdeen Roncalli appear to have swapped places with Aberdeen Central for leadership in ACT scores. While Central’s Class of 2017 chose…
Tri-Valley school district superintendent Mike Lodmel thought it would be a good idea to offer home-school students free laptops if they would come and sit…
In South Dakota, K-12 school districts receive state funding based on how many students are enrolled as of the end of September. The new teacher-based…
Aberdeen Central’s 2017 graduates knocked down our local ACT average. Aberdeen’s composite ACT score dropped from a 22.0 average in 2016 to 21.2 in 2017.…
If you put any stock in standardized tests, the latest ACT scores suggest South Dakota kids got dumber while nationwide kids got smarter. South Dakota…
Stop student debt before it starts: send your kids to Harrisburg High School so they can take college classes for free! The early college program…