To be clear, taking pictures up women’s skirts with a secret shoe camera is sick and disrespectful. If Sioux Falls teacher and coach Dallas Rulon Wilkinson did…
Tag: teacher pay
“In South Dakota, we don’t spend money we don’t have,” says Governor Dennis Daugaard, celebrating South Dakota’s third-best fiscal solvency. We don’t spend money we…
Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) and other members of the Legislature’s Mugwump Rump are calling for a special session. The KCCR interview with Rep. May Wednesday made it sound like…
Legalizing pot won’t solve the teacher shortage. The Flandreau Public Schools are short a science teacher because they can’t pay enough to keep Chelsey Loney from…
The July/August edition of the Aberdeen Chamber’s Progress magazine (not online yet, but someday…) includes an essay from NSU business dean Bill Broucek on gambling and lotteries. He…
A familiar headline comes across my desk: “Salary Dilemma Drives Teachers out of State.” According to the article, more than 46% of the newest annual crop of South…
I love those rare moments when Republicans start connecting the dots of their own rhetoric. Consider this letter from Eureka retiree Cliff Berreth in this morning’s…
Mobridge-Pollock is smarter than Florida. The Florida Legislature has authorized spending $44 million to raise some teachers’ pay. The “Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarships” will go to…
Why didn’t Governor Dennis Daugaard pick Mobridge-Pollock Superintendent Tim Frederick for the Blue Ribbon K-12 task force? Superintendent Frederick knows the answer to South Dakota’s teacher shortage: pay teachers…
A school administrator at one of the Blue Ribbon K-12 funding meetings in Aberdeen Tuesday said that South Dakotans won’t support major funding increases around the idea that teachers…