The State Innovation Exchange has released a letter signed by legislators from 31 states reminding Americans that we can keep our country safe and welcome immigrants and refugees to…
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Bob Mercer notices another task force producing lots of talk but little apparent action: There was enthusiasm to some degree when Rep. Don Haggar, R-Sioux Falls, received…
DFP Full Analysis of Blue Ribbon K-12 Panel Final Report: Most Important Blue Ribbon Finding: South Dakota Must Raise Teacher Pay Crunching Blue Ribbon Numbers:…
DFP Full Analysis of Blue Ribbon K-12 Panel Final Report: Most Important Blue Ribbon Finding: South Dakota Must Raise Teacher Pay Crunching Blue Ribbon Numbers:…
Don’t get my crabby analysis wrong: the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students says a lot of good things in the final report it issued…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a curious response Monday to Democratic minority leaders Senator Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke) and Rep. Spence Hawley (D-7/Brookings). The minority leaders had issued a response last…
Sioux Falls had three legislators and its own new school superintendent on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. Yet co-chair Senator Deb Soholt (R-14),…
In a fit of sanity yesterday, the Legislature’s interim committee on the South Dakota High School Activities Association declared itself pointless and refused to recommend either of the…
When South Dakotans successfully suspended Senate Bill 69 last summer and put it to a vote in 2016 as Referred Law 19, they created a kink…