That tuition freeze came just at the right time. According to the Board of Regents’ Regional Tuition and Fee Survey for this school year, we’ve been soaking…
Tag: education
Yesterday I reported that Black Hills State University and Northern State University have the lowest rates of students in good academic standing in the South…
Also on today’s Regental agenda is a discussion of students meeting academic progress standards on our public university campuses. 92% of our undergrads finished the 2014–2015 school…
If raising boring old regressive sales tax a half-percentage point to lift our teacher pay from 51st to 45th in the nation is being bold,…
Megan Raposa’s story this morning on the Sly Amendment to the new Senate Bill 131 K-12 funding formula gets one thing right: Raposa uses Senator Bille Sutton’s…
While South Dakota’s Republicans use stealth vouchers to undermine public education and line the pockets of their friends in the insurance industry, Arizona Senator John McCain…
What? Governor Dennis Daugaard has signed Senate Bill 159, the two-million-dollar giveaway of tax dollars to private schools via insurance companies, but he’s vetoed Senate Bill…
Time to suspend the rules and pass a new bill on Veto Day? The Bon Homme School District has a problem. The Sly Amendment to the new school-funding formula in…
Rapid City native Carol Hayse spent her career as a school social worker in the Chicago Public Schools until last summer, when she retired and moved…
Uh oh—looks like it’s time for parents in the Colton, Lyons, and Crooks to open-enroll their kids over to Chester, Baltic, and Hartford. In a fit of…