Angela Kennecke reports that in the first years of its GEAR UP program, South Dakota spent $14 million over six years with the intent of sending three…
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Perhaps in the “no news is good news department,” the scandal-rocked Mid-Central Educational Cooperative board met for three hours in executive session on December 17, apparently…
Grant expert Michael Wyland appears to agree with forensic economist Don Frankenfeld that the “very positive” audit of Mid-Central Educational Cooperative’s GEAR UP books should not assuage our…
A commenter notices that the FY2011 GEAR UP grant award that renewed South Dakota’s multi-million dollar grant to help American Indian kids prepare for college…
Pat Powers is too steeped in the propaganda demands to offer any substantive analysis of the audit Mid-Central Educational Cooperative released yesterday of its handling of…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative lawyer Scott Swier sends to the media the forensic audit of MCEC conducted by Eide Bailly. Swier accompanies this audit with a press release…
Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
Bob Ellis dismisses the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from 51st to 39th in the nation as another liberal plot to expand…
Angela Kennecke reports on one GEAR UP employee’s support of suspicions raised by this blog and other observers about consultants siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal education grant…
Indian Country Media spotlights a May 2015 report from the Lakota People’s Law Project recounting the self-serving relationships and contracts, first revealed in Laura Sullivan’s landmark NPR report…