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…
Tag: education
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…
Marketplace this morning mentioned a new report from the Urban Institute on education funding. The report says that South Dakota does a poor job of getting more…
Turn to page 34 of Donald Trump’s budget and you will see that while Il Duce wants to spend $598 billion less on keeping Americans healthy,…
Renée Wise, Aaron Schultz, Ken Santema, and incumbent Brian Sharp are running for three available seats on the Aberdeen school board. So is incumbent Kevin…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem gets to celebrate her heartless, self-interested backing of Trumpcare with an eleven-day break, which I’m sure she will not use to hold town…