Former Senator Stan Adelstein is holding a press conference this morning in Rapid City to propose his own plan for funding the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s…
Tag: teacher pay
Just like South Dakota, North Dakota has a teacher shortage. Just like South Dakota, North Dakota convened a task force to tackle the problem last summer.…
Speaking of teacher pay, Bob Mercer posts some economic data that helps put South Dakota’s miserly teacher salaries in perspective: Following the revisions South Dakota’s…
Apparently the Bridgewater-Emery school board has figured out how to give teachers a $25,000 bonus. You just get them to resign mid-year: The Bridgewater-Emery School District gave a…
Last week I discovered that Governor Dennis Daugaard has actually expanded South Dakota’s general fund expenditures faster than the national average and faster than his…
Former State Senator Stanford Adelstein pays me to advertise his blog, but he doesn’t have to pay me to link to his solution to raising teacher pay…
My post this morning on Dr. Chicoine’s impending reliance on Monsanto for the bulk of his income got one eager reader reviewing the complete list of…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) continues to make stuff up to excuse his resistance to the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s teacher pay proposal. At the Stanley County…
The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…