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…
Tag: education
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…
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…
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…