In her initial written response to the Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee on the Department of Education’s role in the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal, Education…
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Tuesday’s GOAC hearing unearthed another interesting connection to the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal. As Bob Mercer reports, Rep. Kristin Conzet (R-32/Rapid City) helped get the whole…
After reading Education Secretary Melody Schopp’s lawyer-approved written responses to the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s questions about the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal, I wrote that…
I’ve expressed some reservations about former Indian Education director LuAnn Werdel’s statements about the Department of Education’s failure to take action on the warnings she…
In anticipation of his scheduled grilling by fellow members of the Government Operations and Audit Committee yesterday, Senator Stace Nelson sent two recordings of phone…
The SDGOP spin blog desperately wants you to believe that the state is responding to the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal with all due diligence and that…
Angela Kennecke gets former Office of Indian Education director LuAnn Werdel to finally come on camera to talk about the contradictory signals she sent about…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp’s newsworthy (one, two, three, four blog posts on Dakota Free Press, coverage by Mercer, Ferguson, Russo, Kennecke… but predictably, not a word from…
On her first day as Secretary of Education, Melody Schopp asked the director of the Office of Indian Education, LuAnn Werdel, to resign. Werdel unloaded…
In the John Wayne Toilet Paper department, Senator Stace Nelson tells his Republican colleague Senator Deb Peters that he will fulfill her request that he…