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,…
Tag: standardized tests
Update 15:40 CST: Representative Venhuizen tells me to read Section 1. I do so and realize I read his bill wrong and reported incorrectly this…
The Department of Education reported to the Government Operations and Audit Committee yesterday that while South Dakota’s average ACT score has slid from 21.9 for the…
The Governor and legislators are piling new bills into an emergency hopper for Monday’s historic Online Veto-Plus Day. When I checked at breakfasttime today, there…
On the good side, coronavirus may kill standardized tests this year. The College Board has canceled SATs scheduled for March 28 and May 2. ACT…
Maybe the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s usurpation of the Secretary of Education’s authority will be good for South Dakota. GOAC chair Senator Ryan Maher…
When South Dakota students posted another year of flat standardized test scores, ace student Kristi Noem said she was “not happy with those numbers” and…
Aberdeen Central School Board member Duane Alm came to Saturday’s crackerbarrel to ask legislators why the Governor Kristi Noem wants to drop the testing requirements…
Governor Kristi Noem better send a memo to Tony Venhuizen’s seat-warmer over in Education, Interim Secretary Ben Jones, and tell him to tell his department…
Another new Issue Memo from the Legislative Research Council outlines the five major differences between the new Every Student Succeeds Act and the failed No…