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:…
Tag: education
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…
Key to securing passage of House Bill 1182, the sales tax to raise K-12 teacher pay, was Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s (R-5/Watertown) amendment specifying that three percent of…
TransCanada/Keystone/Alberta oil reading stumbles me upon a new study that finds Alberta teachers work about 48 hours a week during the school year. I tracked down…
South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
An statistically inclined reader analyzes the state’s numbers on the new K-12 funding package and produces this table and chart showing how the new target student-teacher ratios on which the…
Ken Santema says the teachers union and other education advocates should have focused as much attention on Senate Bill 131, the new K-12 funding formula, as they did…