Remember how our Legislature passed stealth vouchers to give their insurance company pals tax breaks for laundering public money into private-school scholarships? Even if we set aside…
Tag: education
KDLT overtags its story on the impact of the “late” starts and finishes to the Sioux Falls school year. Last year, Sioux Falls school district voters…
South Dakota’s Catholic schools are feeling the pressure to pay their teachers what they are worth. Sioux Falls Catholic Schools Foundation exec Michelle Katen is hoping to…
Here are the four posters Battelle put up for our perusal at last night’s meeting in Redfield on the Deep Borehole Field test. Click to…
As the accused GEAR UP felons appear in Charles Mix County court today, I need to correct and expand on a report I posted last week…
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…
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…