When one of Trump’s minor education flunkies came to Madison last month to praise shop class, when Mike Rowe tours our tech schools to promote…
Tag: vo-tech
While average salaries for K-12 teachers and university professors in South Dakota sit at an embarrassing 48th in the nation, our vo-tech instructors manage to…
If you looked at the Chronicle of Higher Education tables I cited in my previous post, you know this fiscal policy post is coming! The state of…
Both the Democratic and Republican parties of South Dakota have declared themselves opposed to Initiated Measure 25, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) proposed tobacco…
Team Mickelson is two for two on initiative petitions! Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified House Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s petition to put to…
House Bill 1073 purports to protect free speech on South Dakota’s public universities and vo-techs. However, the roster of arch-conservative sponsors suggests HB 1073 is…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
Like Bernie Sanders, South Dakota Republicans believe in free college! Well, free if you’re going to vo-tech in fields where their business friends say they’re…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants us voters to decide whether to raise our wholesale tobacco tax to reduce tuition at our regionally uncompetitive…
Last April, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) said he wants the new Board of Technical Education to advocate for $9 million in new state…