The Legislature won’t give teachers any more money, but it won’t take any more money from retailers. The House yesterday shot down House Appropriations chief…
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Hey, do you remember how the Legislature got lots of us to support increasing the state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% last year by promising…
Senate Bill 35 provides the yearly adjustments to the formula for state aid to education. In past years, this bill would have specified the increase in…
I feel like Governor Daugaard is using IM22 the way Donald Trump uses Twitter: to distract us from his policy failures. Trump flunks foreign policy by tweaking…
My local paper’s editorial board looks at the higher salaries South Dakota’s K-12 teachers are getting from the half-penny sales tax hike enacted last June (my updated calculation: an 11.6%…
On October 28, Governor Dennis Daugaard issued a press release stating that his Blue Ribbon sales tax increase and new school funding formula has raised South…
On October 11, I reported that Rep Isaac Latterell (R-6/Tea?) was deceptively advertising his credentials as a supporter of education, even though he vigorously resisted…
Update 10:36 CDT: Apparently there is some dispute as to what the Governor’s office said and meant in the text provided to and quoted by the Mitchell Daily…
That Sioux Falls paper reported this week that unfilled K-12 teaching positions continue to run lower this year than last. In June, South Dakota had 186 vacant K-12…
In a state where right-to-fire laws defang labor, where teachers have no right to strike, and where school boards have the authority to impose contracts unilaterally, what’s a teacher’s…