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…
Tag: education
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…
Item 5-S on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda this afternoon makes me think someone at Black Hills State University has been sitting too close to…
Part 3 of Dakotafire‘s coverage of South Dakota’s teacher shortage wonders if the Blue Ribbon panel’s 30th recommendation should have been recruiting moms to teach: “Being a teacher…
Indian Country Media spotlights a May 2015 report from the Lakota People’s Law Project recounting the self-serving relationships and contracts, first revealed in Laura Sullivan’s landmark NPR report…
Governor Dennis Daugaard uses his weekly column to promote more standardized tests… for workers! When a business needs to hire a new employee, there’s a lot…