Good teachers don’t need state standards to figure out what kids need to learn. Flandreau driver educator Wylie Scalise took the initiative to improve his…
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Florida has adopted new K-12 civics standards that Trumpist conservative Hillsdale College of Michigan helped write. Florida teachers attending workshops developed by Hillsdale for training…
The right-wingnuts on the Rapid City school board have banned books, made excuses for domestic terrorism, and opposed public health and common-sense pandemic responses. The predictable result of this…
The Noem Administration has kept Hillsdale College’s ideological rewrite of South Dakota’s social studies curriculum standards under pretty tight wraps for the last couple months.…
The Lead-Deadwood School District gave final approval Monday to its new policy restricting the display of any “controversial” signs or decorations conveying “political or religious…
Arm the teachers! cry the gun nuts who can’t face the fact that guns (and the normalization of guns and mass murder) are part of…
The number of school districts in South Dakota will decrease by at least one in 2023. In a special election Tuesday, voters in the Oldham-Ramona…
The South Dakota Indian Education Advisory Council had one item on its agenda yesterday, to discuss Governor Kristi Noem’s Executive Order 2022-02, the campaign stunt…
To protect students and staff from controversy, the Lead-Deadwood school board is giving first reading this afternoon (Tuesday, May 10, 4 p.m. MDT, high school…
The Rapid City school board wants to destroy—not simply surplus, sell, or give away, but destroy—copies of five modern books it deems objectionable. “The Circle”…