In his speech at the A-TEC Academy ribbon-cutting yesterday in Aberdeen, Governor Dennis Daugaard uttered these vitally important words: The Future Fund was started by Governor…
Tag: education
Governor Dennis Daugaard joined numerous luminaries today at 1 p.m. on the Aberdeen Central High School campus to celebrate the opening of the A-TEC Academy.…
Governor Dennis Daugaard visited the Hub City this sunny, breezy late summer afternoon to celebrate the opening of the A-TEC Academy on the Aberdeen Central High School campus. Governor…
An eager reader shares a post from Minneapolis high school language arts teacher Ben MacKenzie on how to attract more teachers to K-12 education: I believe…
Listening to South Dakota Public Radio this morning, I think I heard Secretary of Education Melody Schopp say that the new K-12 social studies standards approved by…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…
Hey, Blue Ribbon K-12 panel! I know the legislators among you are desperate to engineer any excuse you can get not to take the single most important…
Ethan Marsland lived up to his early press and announced his candidacy for District 33 House yesterday. Rather than waiting for South Dakota Public Broadcasting to shoot its Legislative…
I listened to most of the second meeting of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students yesterday (you can too, as soon as…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel convenes today (listen live online 09:30–16:30 CDT here!). The panel, chaired by Republican legislators Rep. Jacqueline Sly (R-33/Rapid City) and…