I noted yesterday that the most important words spoken at the Aberdeen sessions of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students may have…
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The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students wrapped up its information-gathering sessions here in Aberdeen Tuesday. I attended all three sessions and found…
The most important words I heard at yesterday’s opinion-gathering sessions hosted by Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students may have been the statement panel…
Charles Michael Ray reports on the groundbreaking for a big new housing development and community near Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Reservation: Officials with the USDA…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students meets today in Watertown and tomorrow in Aberdeen (at each town’s Ramkota) to ask citizens to write on sticky notes their…
My local paper runs an editorial from its Sioux Falls counterpart that gets standardized testing and parent and student rights really, really wrong. Let me try to…
Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) says she wants a special session for the Legislature to address K-12 education. She complains to KCCR Radio that there’s not enough…
The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students drew good crowds in Sioux Falls yesterday. Patrick Anderson of that Sioux Falls paper reports over a hundred participants at…
Yesterday I proposed a grand bargain to give Governor Daugaard a one-year suspension of continuing contract in return for raising the average South Dakota teacher salary to 13th in…
The most offensive words I’ve heard all week were the stream of f-words occasionally interrupted by other parts of speech with which my barley-enhanced neighbors awakened me…