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…
Tag: education
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…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s choice of only two teachers for his 26-member Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students suggests that he’s still mad at…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has named the other half of his Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. Out of the thirteen new appointees joining the ten…
If we Democrats and über-conservative Republicans could get along, we could tag-team Governor Daugaard into a tizzy. At the same time that he was penning a specious,…
Last week I mentioned that Boys and Girls State appear to be suffering a long-term decline in numbers. Attendance at the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary events…
The Washington Post features research that indicates Sesame Street may have done more to improve education than any elected official in South Dakota in the last five…
The cosmos is off kilter when the most instructive and interesting reportage on the Rapid City meeting of Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (BluRTFTS)…