Governor Dennis Daugaard showed signs this winter that he was abandoning the fantasy that South Dakota’s mythical low cost of living made up for South Dakota’s low…
Tag: statistics
South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
An statistically inclined reader analyzes the state’s numbers on the new K-12 funding package and produces this table and chart showing how the new target student-teacher ratios on which the…
As I page through the new statewide Single Audit Report for FY 2015 (yes, we’ll get to the Department of Education this morning), I notice the list…
An angry commenter asked me yesterday how I sleep at night. With so much corruption going on in our fair state, maybe the question is, how…
The South Dakota Department of Education has posted a spreadsheet—click and download the “Accountability Calculator”—that will allow every school district to calculate how much new money…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…
Sioux Falls makes Governing‘s list of 25 cities with the biggest increases in foreign-born residents compared to native population growth. From 2009 to 2014, Sioux Falls gained over 3,000…
Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
Want some numerical nitty-gritty to go with your debate over House Bill 1182 today? Check out this chart showing the average teacher pay in every South…