In today’s case of accounting whiplash, Southeast Technical Institute says it won’t need to resort to layoffs. Just three weeks ago, Southeast was saying a two-million-dollar deficit…
Tag: education
The Aberdeen School Board tonight takes up (and, by the time I finish typing this, may well have approved) the negotiated agreement with its teachers for the…
When they weren’t using GEAR UP as a money laundry, Stacy Phelps and his American Indian Institute for Innovation focused their educational efforts for American Indian kids…
Sioux Falls elementary teacher Jennifer Egstad puts the Common Core tests in proper perspective for her third-grade Spanish immersion students: The “Smarter Balanced” standardized tests…
The failure of South Dakota’s GEAR UP program to produce evidence of success in getting more kids to college is not unique. Angela Kennecke finds a spring 2013…
The Board of Regents doesn’t listen to every memo from Governor Dennis Daugaard. Check out the programs they are expanding to respond to workforce needs:…
Secret rich people are attacking public education in Minnesota, suing the state over its teacher tenure and “last in, first out” teacher layoff policies. The plaintiffs, backed by…
The safe, rural Tri-Valley School District, where, like almost every other South Dakota school district there has never been a school shooting, has voted to become…
KOTA TV makes a couple of interesting notes about Senate Bill 159, the stealth vouchers bill signed into law by Governor Dennis Daugaard two weeks ago: The stealth…