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,…
Tag: education
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…
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…