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…
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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…
One person on the way into the final listening session of the Blue Ribbon K-12 funding task force asked me, “Is this going to be a…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s choice of only two teachers for his 26-member Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students suggests that he’s still mad at…
Uh oh—I’m going to have to get cranky with my anti-Common Core friends for trying to crash the Blue Ribbon party. South Dakotans Against Common…
Mr. Ehrisman noticed this weekend the 2014 Annual Report from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Among the juicy morsels presented is this chart showing the relatively healthy…