The Democratic plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay is superior to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan for three main reasons: The Democratic plan raises teacher pay…
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Bob Mercer seems to share my frustration with the apparent slow start to the potentially monumental 2016 Legislative Session. Legislators seem to be slow on submitting bills,…
…and democracy is hard work! My friends at Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, who also pay good money to advertise on this blog, graciously allowed me to hold…
My neighbor and NSU education professor Alan Neville uses his column in the Aberdeen American News this morning to urge passage of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay raise plan: On…
The youngest cranky old man in the South Dakota Blogosphere gives us a taste of the basic opposition Governor Daugaard and his new best friends…
I wrote my open letter to Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday suspecting that the Governor wouldn’t just advocate the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise teacher pay. I thought he’d hold…
House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) and Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) are playing word games to hide their lack of political courage and avoid enacting the two…
Aberdeen’s Harvey Jewett, who’s coming up on his twentieth year of Regenting, spoke to the local paper this week about the upcoming Legislative Session and higher…
Bob Mercer reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard has named Scott Herman to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Stacy Phelps last fall. One Todd County…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) thinks increasing teacher pay to address the number-one crisis in K-12 education, the teacher shortage, is dead on arrival. But he thinks the…