In a state where right-to-fire laws defang labor, where teachers have no right to strike, and where school boards have the authority to impose contracts unilaterally, what’s a teacher’s…
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Governing points toward a report by McKinsey & Company that says achieving full gender equality in the U.S. could add $4.3 trillion to U.S. GDP. In…
KDLT overtags its story on the impact of the “late” starts and finishes to the Sioux Falls school year. Last year, Sioux Falls school district voters…
Our friends in labor (union guys, not imminent moms) were working McGovern Day last Saturday spreading the word about Initiated Measure 23. Evidently wanting to solidify my vote,…
Facts and good sense managed to beat back the one ugly outburst of anti-refugee paranoia that cropped up in this year’s Legislative Session. Now I’m proud…
Hey, Southeast Technical Institute! Still wondering whom to can to cover your two-million-dollar deficit? Try Western Dakota Technical Institute’s solution: can your financial aid staff!…
Key to securing passage of House Bill 1182, the sales tax to raise K-12 teacher pay, was Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s (R-5/Watertown) amendment specifying that three percent of…
Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the Wisconsin primary last night. Whoo-hoo! The media will continue to remind us of the daunting delegate…
In this week’s Convergence File, a Scalia-less Supreme Court deadlock has left the door open for a pro-union ballot measure in South Dakota. Back in January,…