Here’s why we don’t count on private sector charity to provide vital public services: Students whose families pinned private school hopes on a new state-subsidized scholarship…
Tag: education
Just days after 150-some Aberdeen residents gathered to hear a California speaker rally them to reject refugee resettlement and the recruiting of immigrant laborers, a major Huron…
Item #6 of new business on the Sisseton School Board agenda Monday night was “Motion to modify/change homecoming for SY 2017-2018.” Sisseton correspondent Sierra Smiley Wolcott…
The Board of Regents continues to push the magical concept of “degree production.” Bob Mercer reports that the Regents spent three hours yesterday at their River Rock…
I’ve been calling Senator Phyllis Heineman’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) self-serving “tax-credit scholarships” stealth vouchers since she first floated the plan in the 2015 Legislature. Now that Heineman’s school-privatization…
Update 10:36 CDT: Apparently there is some dispute as to what the Governor’s office said and meant in the text provided to and quoted by the Mitchell Daily…
Add this article to your Huether 2018 folder: WalletHub says Sioux Falls is the ninth-best-run city in the United States. Looking at our 150 largest cities, WalletHub…
The Trumpist Party is waging war on public schools. The Republican nominee’s son, a graduate of an elite private school that no government subsidy will or should ever make…
Aberdeen’s Dana Randall, delegate to the thankfully concluded Republican National Convention, must have been infected with Donald Trump’s inability to admit when he’s wrong. He tells Victoria Lusk that…
Hillary Clinton spoke to the national meeting of the American Federation of Teachers in Minneapolis yesterday. She appears not to have tripped any plagiarism alarms, but…