While our Governor waits for someone else to pay for Medicaid expansion and lets a useful social service program die, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shows us how…
Tag: education
Art Marmorstein, NSU history prof and AAN columnist, notes that the results of the first Common Core-aligned statewide standardized tests seem to suggest disaster has struck South…
Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute offers some national teacher job numbers that show that public layoffs in response to the recession have left the U.S.…
Scott Westerhuis’s apparent murder-suicide and the burning of his lavish-beyond-visible-means house on September 17 has sent investigators and journalists digging deeper to find what sort of sins or errors…
The non-fatal shooting of principal Kevin Lein at Harrisburg High School might prompt some South Dakota school officials to consider using the as-yet completely unused school gunslinger law passed by…
Yesterday I reported that Mitchell school superintendent Joseph Graves pocketed $157,500 administering a federal history-teaching grant funneled through the accountability-challenged Mid-Central Educational Cooperative. Today Superintendent Graves takes…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students holds its penultimate meeting tomorrow in Pierre at the View 34 golf-course restaurant. The focus of this…
Add Dr. Joseph Graves of Mitchell to the list of establishment cronies (Melmer, Phelps,…) who made good money off grants flowing through the audit-flagged Mid-Central Educational…
This morning I jumped on KOTA’s report that Education Secretary Melody Schopp had fired the GEAR UP staff. Bob Mercer then reported that gubernatorial chief of staff Tony…
Here’s something else John Thune isn’t getting done in the Senate: Perkins Loans. This financial aid program provides $1.2 billion in low-interest loans to over half a…