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…
Tag: education
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…
School starts in Sioux Falls on Tuesday, September 5. Two years ago, 52% of Sioux Falls voters approved pushing that start date to the day…
Bob Mercer reports on the first data made available on South Dakota’s new public funding program for Christian schools. Recall that in 2016, to salve…
The Sioux Falls school board apparently votes on Monday, August 14, on whether to hire Douglas C. Morrison for a new six-figure administrative position, just…
At his workforce development workshop in Sioux Falls yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard said, “Finding workforce is the key problem that’s faced by employers.” So often…
The Sioux Falls School District has created a new administrative position—”Director of Research, Innovation & Accountability“—to save money and filled it with freshly resigned school…