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…
Tag: education
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…
Comments from Western Dakota Technical Institute concerning its accreditation troubles should make us wonder why we bother with school accreditation in the first place. When the news…
Rep. Dennis Feickert (D-1/Aberdeen) and Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) spoke yesterday at a packed Brown County Democratic Forum. Both men discussed the 2016 Legislative Session. School Funding: Rep. Feickert…
I want a veto just so we can test whether the Legislature would allow Alex Jensen to cast an illegal vote on Veto Day on behalf of…
Some legislators can hardly legislate and change their clocks at the same time. Professor Reynold Nesiba, Democratic candidate for District 15 Senate, plans to legislate and…
The South Dakota Legislature wrapped up business Friday, casting its final votes for the Fiscal Year 2017 budget and leaving town before lunch. That final budget, Senate Bill…
Update 22:04 CDT: Numerous well-informed readers have pointed out that I misread the budget! My state aid to K-12 numbers from FY2006 through FY2016 include special…