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…
Tag: teacher pay
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…
South Dakota’s primary provided the first test of the electoral impact of votes on House Bill 1182, the 0.5% sales tax enacted last week to provide…
The Rapid City school board and its teachers can’t agree on how to distribute the new $5.2 million appropriated by the state to raise teacher pay to…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says his plan to raise teacher pay is working: “There’s a variation in the kinds of increases we’re seeing, but no question across…
South Dakota’s Catholic schools are feeling the pressure to pay their teachers what they are worth. Sioux Falls Catholic Schools Foundation exec Michelle Katen is hoping to…
The Aberdeen School Board tonight takes up (and, by the time I finish typing this, may well have approved) the negotiated agreement with its teachers for the…
TransCanada/Keystone/Alberta oil reading stumbles me upon a new study that finds Alberta teachers work about 48 hours a week during the school year. I tracked down…
Katherine Grandstrand goes to town on the new funding formula and finds that, while all 23 of the school districts in the Aberdeen American News coverage…
Ken Santema says the teachers union and other education advocates should have focused as much attention on Senate Bill 131, the new K-12 funding formula, as they did…