Angela Kennecke reports that in the first years of its GEAR UP program, South Dakota spent $14 million over six years with the intent of sending three…
Tag: education
The State of South Dakota is providing a low-interest loan to help three Kadoka entrepreneurs make moonshine: The South Dakota Value Added Finance Authority voted 5-0…
House Bill 1001 would pull South Dakota out of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a non-profit formed in 1991 to help postsecondary institutions from the Dakotas to Missouri…
Last week I discovered that Governor Dennis Daugaard has actually expanded South Dakota’s general fund expenditures faster than the national average and faster than his…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students released its 34-page, 29-recommendation final report on November 11, 2015. Governor Dennis Daugaard’s initial reaction to his task force’s report…
Here’s how the 2016 U.S. House campaign will go. Democratic candidate and State Representative Paula Hawks will make an intelligent observation. The GOP spin blog will then miss…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…
At least Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) is trying. Unlike Governor Dennis Daugaard, who has yet to offer clear support for his own Blue Ribbon K-12…
Black Hills State University may be ditching its fine arts and humanities requirement for all students, but it is giving the art majors a boost. At…
The South Dakota Board of Regents heard a bad-news/good-news report on student debt at their meeting this week in Spearfish. The bad news: Average per-student debt has climbed…