Proposed K-12 curriculum standards for math and health caught flak at their second public hearing yesterday in Sioux Falls, for different reasons. Expert math educators…
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Good grief—doesn’t the Noem Administration talk to anyone anymore? Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) went to House Education Friday to promote his House Bill 1002,…
While Republican Majority Leader Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) is trying to expand the Capitol Complex Commission, the Department of Education is making some room for…
Secretary of Education Joseph Graves has never been a great friend of teachers. Once upon a time, he wanted to strip teachers of labor protections…
While superintendent of the Northwestern Area School District, Ryan Bruns spoke publicly on a variety of political issues related to education funding and policy. The…
Even loyal Republican flakster and newly anointed Education Secretary Joe Graves can’t defend the extraordinarily politicized, teacher-disdaining process that produced the radical draft K-12 social studies…
For the first time in her four years as Governor, Kristi Noem has pulled someone directly from K-12 education to serve as Education Secretary. I’d…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is meeting in Pierre right now. You can listen online as the panel tries to produce solid recommendations…
My report on Mitchell superintendent Joe Graves’s six-figure moonlighting as Teaching American History grant coordinator for Mid-Central Educational Cooperative got him some ink in the Mitchell…
Yesterday I reported that Mitchell school superintendent Joseph Graves pocketed $157,500 administering a federal history-teaching grant funneled through the accountability-challenged Mid-Central Educational Cooperative. Today Superintendent Graves takes…