The 2016 sales tax for teacher pay deal was supposed to be a historic reform of K-12 school funding that would pull South Dakota teacher…
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I regularly post analyses showing that South Dakota’s low wages, especially South Dakota’s bottom-of-the-barrel teacher wages, are not justified by any fantastical notions of lower…
The Teacher Compensation Review Board finds we still aren’t living up to the promise of the 2016 sales-tax-for-teacher-pay plan. No matter which way you slice…
Another sign that South Dakota’s budgetary dysfunction is the increasing gap between the target teacher salary that the great 2016 sales increase was supposed to…
The Sioux Falls school district has been trying to beat South Dakota’s teacher shortage by beating other schools to the hiring punch: With such low…
The “strongest economy in America” is still generating the second-lowest teacher salaries in America: The latest data from the National Education Association shows South Dakota…
The number of school districts in South Dakota will decrease by at least one in 2023. In a special election Tuesday, voters in the Oldham-Ramona…
Governor Kristi Noem has spent the past year blaming South Dakota teachers for the January 6 insurrection and accusing them of scheming to foist radical leftist…
South Dakota News Watch notes the failure of South Dakota’s plan to raise teacher pay that we’ve been talking about throughout this year. We busted our…
The silliest, most misleading chart of the week comes from KELO-TV, which compares teacher pay in South Dakota and five adjoining states by showing lower…