Crank up your headphones and ring the Tip Jar—it’s Dakota Free Press Podcast #7! https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/podcast/DFP007.mp3 In this week’s episode, Green Aberdeen leader Enno Limvere tells us about Green Aberdeen’s local environmental…
Tag: vo-tech
Lake Area Technical Institute isn’t just the best vo-tech/community college in the country in the eyes of the Aspen Institute. They appear to be the…
Thanks to Amendment R and Senate Bill 65, the vo-techs can finally get local school boards out of their hair, if they want. Thanks to House Bill…
For five decades, South Dakota ran its vo-tech schools unconstitutionally, allowing local school boards to manage them instead of the Board of Regents, the only entity authorized by the…
Like Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-12/Sioux Falls) and Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) in their opposing statements in the official 2016 ballot question pamphlet, the committee…
The Pro and Con statements on Amendment R, the measure to clarify governance of our vo-tech schools, show a battle between the two wings of…
Tech Schools for South Dakota announces that Governor Dennis Daugaard will be joining them to launch their public campaign for Amendment R, the vo-tech governance measure…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t running for reëlection, but he’s watching his Legislative baby like a hawk. Recall that Rep. Schoenbeck saved the teacher pay-raise plan last winter…
Key to securing passage of House Bill 1182, the sales tax to raise K-12 teacher pay, was Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s (R-5/Watertown) amendment specifying that three percent of…