KELO-TV gets some SDSU education majors to say what I’ve been saying all along: all the scholarships and incentives the state has tried to cobble together…
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Even in Sioux Falls, one of the best-paying school districts in South Dakota, the three school board candidates say they want to pay their teachers more. Says challenger…
Brown County’s emergency management director is feeling swamped. Scott Meints told the county commission yesterday that he and his sole staffer, Patti Woods, are putting…
In South Dakota, when our political leaders talk about giving young workers an opportunity, they mean, “Cut their pay a dollar, and let them be…
Among other items on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda last week was a report on teacher education. The Regents learned that… Out of…
While the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students gears up to reinvent the wheel, Ellendale (ND) superintendent Jeff Fastnacht reminds us of the main cause of…
Dr. Tim Mitchell superintends a school district with a student body the size of the entire town of Pierre and a staff (teachers, sweepers, everybody) the…
Dr. Tim Mitchell, superintendent of the Rapid City Area Schools, addressed the Black Hills Forum and Press Club this noon in Rapid City. The main…
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development offers us more fun with numbers with their new and improved Real Wage Calculator. This nifty little tool, touted in…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has named the first thirteen members of his new Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (what’s our pronounceable acronym: BluRT-FTS?):…