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…
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The Government Operations and Audit Committee may feel like an ugly duckling. GOAC voted unanimously to invite four people to its August 29 meeting to testify…
Remember back in March 2016 when KELO-TV reported that the South Dakota Department of Education had received warnings about misuse of federal GEAR UP grant…
There’s a lot popping with the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s inquiry into the GEAR UP scandal. Expect multiple posts. First up, Special Assistant Attorney…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp raised my eyebrows with her claim last week that the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative scandal didn’t lose any federal GEAR UP grant…
In over three hours of testimony to the the Government Operations and Audit Committee in Pierre yesterday, Secretary of Education Melody Schopp said none of…
The pivotal argument in the GEAR UP trials may be a political argument: Guericke’s defense attorney, Mike Butler, says his client’s only crime was trusting Scott…
My friend Russell Graeff is working hard to beat Stace Nelson in the District 19 Senate race. He continues to work the ballot measures for Election Day…
Interestingly, it’s not Pat Powers but Scott Ehrisman who suggests that Scott Heidepriem’s representation of the American Indian students suing Mid-Central Educational Cooperative over the GEAR UP scandal…
The Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal is now bursting with lawsuits. Mid-Central Educational Cooperative is suing the American Indian Institute for Innovation for not fulfilling its contractual obligations and…