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…
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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…
A vague scribble on a bathroom wall turned into 20% of the Aberdeen Central High School student body staying home yesterday. The threat, rumored to…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students holds its final meeting next week Thursday, October 29. Thursday’s agenda lists the following topics under “Recommendations”: English Language…
We don’t get anywhere telling Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Republican Legislature that we need to pay English teachers and music teachers more, because who…
The Family Heritage Alliance’s political action committee has posted its scorecard for members of the 2015 Legislature. FHA Action rated our legislators on their votes on 19…
South Dakota’s teacher shortage is so bad that we now have to import teachers from the Philippines. So says Richard Bad Milk, superintendent at St.…