Numerous polls show partisan splits on questions of fact, policy, and value. But multiple readers have noted this eyebrow-raising survey from the Pew Research Center,…
Tag: education
The Mitchell paper reports that the state is seeing more students referred for special education services: Statewide, there are a total of 20,224 students reported…
The Board of Regents will spend a little time Thursday discussing technology in the classroom, specifically electronic textbooks. Students in five classes on five campuses…
I’ve been thinking about what courses to take to re-up my South Dakota teaching certificate. I have until summer 2019 to take six university credits…
In August 2015, the Board of Regents discussed declining enrollment at the Sioux Falls University Center. At the time, they worked up the idea of focusing…
KELO-TV mistags a story on youth employment. “Teen Summer Jobs Are Vanishing,” KELO writes over five sentences excerpted from a much more detailed AP story,…
Last April, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) said he wants the new Board of Technical Education to advocate for $9 million in new state…
The Department of Education provides this awesome chart plotting the English and math proficiency rates of every school—not just school district, but school building—that had…
Aberdeen’s school board candidates were less shy about speaking with Dakota Free Press than our city council candidates. While only three in ten city candidates agreed to podcast interviews,…
Hot off the Mac—the latest Dakota Free Press Podcast! In lucky Episode #13, conservative blogger Ken Santema sits down with this liberal podcast to talk…