Last fall, after the Department of Education’s heavy-handed whitewashing of K-12 social studies standards drafted by a 46-member volunteer workgroup, and after Governor Kristi Noem…
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Sister Lynn Marie: Remembering Is Good Trouble. Acknowledging Our Errors Is Greatness.
Published 2022-02-10
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Sister Lynn Marie Welbig testified to House Education yesterday against House Bill 1012 on behalf of the Presentation Sisters, who she said oppose the state’s…
House Ed Waters Down Both of Noem’s School Thought Control Bills
Published 2022-02-10
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
South Dakota’s Republican legislators are dragging South Dakota’s schools and universities into authoritarian thought control, but on the bright side, they appear to be recognizing…
Education Dept. to Take Nominations for Repeat Social Studies Standards Panel; Send Noem Message by Renominating Original Workgroup!
Published 2021-10-29
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Governor Kristi Noem’s unnecessary redo of South Dakota’s K-12 social studies curriculum standards starts November 1 with, evidently, a public nomination process for new standards revision…
State Education Board to Consider Social Studies Standards in August; Where’s My Socialism?
Published 2015-07-20
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
The call for a special session, whether to rehash Common Core or discuss genuine K-12 funding policies, will likely fail. If you want to talk K-12 funding, you’ll have to…