The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
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DFP Full Analysis of Blue Ribbon K-12 Panel Final Report: Most Important Blue Ribbon Finding: South Dakota Must Raise Teacher Pay Crunching Blue Ribbon Numbers:…
The evaluation of SD GEAR UP’s effectiveness didn’t turn up all snake eyes. According to responses from a focus group made of Indian students participating in GEAR…
If I’m going to blame Republican Sioux Falls legislators for failing to produce solid results on the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel, I’ve got to look west…
Blue Ribbon K-12 panelist Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) impressed me last week, saying on South Dakota Public Radio that he’s willing to fight for $75 million…
Warming up for Attorney General Marty Jackley’s press conference in Platte today at 1 p.m. Central, Angela Kennecke goes to town on the state’s GEAR UP…
Jeb Bush must think he’s going to last until South Dakota’s June primary. He appears to be angling for Dennis Daugaard’s endorsement: “Universities ought to have skin…
Georgia’s legislature passed a law in 2014 allowing schools to arm their staff, like South Dakota’s 2013 school gunslinger law. Guess what happened? Just like in South Dakota,…
$48,000. 39th. $75 million. Those are the parameters—not the plan, just the parameters—that the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students issued from their final…