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…
Tag: education
Wondering where the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel could find the money to raise South Dakota teacher salaries? How about cutting professional development activities? Last week The…
Patrick Anderson reports that in the twenty years since the South Dakota Legislature stopped mandating and funding gifted education, 87% of local gifted education programs have…
KELO-TV repeats (with reminders from Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Deuel) that the teacher shortage is real, which invites Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) and I to have…
The leaders of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students are urging us teachers to be nice to them: Two state legislators…
It takes four days for the mainstream media to pick up the story covered here Friday about Governor Dennis Daugaard’s wrong-note performance at the Gifted Education Summit…
Mike Rounds doesn’t listen to me, but maybe Kristi Noem does. South Dakota’s lone Representative backs the provision in the pending revision of the Elementary…
I like my local paper. The Aberdeen American News publishes a fair array of informative local and state news articles, plus just enough really stupid articles to make…
Governor Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel holds its second meeting on Wednesday, August 19, in Pierre. I’m not sure what they have left to talk about, since it…
Governor Dennis Daugaard attended a Gifted Education Summit on the USD campus this morning, largely so he and South Dakota’s First Lady could be honored…