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…
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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…
Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) is still fretting about inflation, but from Bob Mercer’s account of last week’s Teacher Compensation Review Board meeting, it doesn’t sound…
The Sioux Falls School Board apparently understands how to deal with a workforce shortage—raise wages! The Sioux Falls School board has approved a $280 million…
In the lead-up to South Dakota’s last great push to raise teacher pay, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s task force settled on the Governor’s suggested, underwhelming, but…
But the shipping-container shortage won’t matter to South Dakota much if we can’t get our goods out to ports in the first place. KSFY reports…
South Dakota continues to fall short of the statutory target teacher salary established in the big Daugaard reform of 2016. According to the Department of…
With Donald Trump and Kristi Noem waging a destructive constant war with unpleasant reality, it’s refreshing just to read issue memos from the Legislative Research…