Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a curious response Monday to Democratic minority leaders Senator Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke) and Rep. Spence Hawley (D-7/Brookings). The minority leaders had issued a response last…
Tag: GEAR UP
The evaluation of SD GEAR UP’s effectiveness didn’t turn up all snake eyes. According to responses from a focus group made of Indian students participating in GEAR…
The 2015 SD GEAR UP Program Evaluation conducted by the USD Government Research Bureau issued in August 2015 concluded that South Dakota wasn’t getting much demonstrable bang for the…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp rejects Rep. Lance Russell’s call for her to resign over the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal. She tells Dana Ferguson that good leaders don’t “back away…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative business manager Scott Westerhuis incorporated two non-profits to handle the federal GEAR UP grant the Department of Education contracted down to MCEC, allowing him…
Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) takes a look at the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal and comes to an obvious conclusion: Melody Schopp should resign as Secretary of Education: Republican State…
Warming up for Attorney General Marty Jackley’s press conference in Platte today at 1 p.m. Central, Angela Kennecke goes to town on the state’s GEAR UP…
The corruption in Pierre is so bad— —How bad is it?!— —it’s so bad that even the local paper in this government town has to admit that…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…
The powers that be are having a hard time spinning the controversy involving Mid-Central Educational Cooperative’s handling of millions of dollars of federal GEAR UP grant money…