Vouchers, the transfers of public dollars to private schools that religious conservatives like Kristi Noem and Lee Schoenbeck so eagerly promote, don’t produce better education…
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South Dakota has a stealth voucher program that launders public tax dollars through tax rebates to insurers who give out scholarships to private schools. Like…
In another example of Executive Branch overreach, Governor Kristi Noem is using federal money to contravene the will of the Legislature and enact a pared-down…
In double-proof that no bill is ever really fully dead in Pierre, House Local Government yesterday dug up Senate Bill 82, a sensible poll-watcher regulation…
In a stunning blow to Governor Kristi Noem’s agenda, Senate Education yesterday killed Senate Bill 100, the Governor’s ALEC-generated proposal to give foster families vouchers…
Oh, you know that great idea Governor Kristi Noem has to rebrand vouchers as scholarships for foster kids so she can divert more taxpayer dollars…
In December, the Associated School Boards of South Dakota warned that Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed Stronger Families Scholarship could explode into a voucher program to…
On the good side, the Trump Administration seems to be backing away from the Donald’s typical management-by-blind-bullying threat to withhold funds from schools who don’t…
Article 8 Section 1 of the South Dakota Constitution explains our founders’ commitment to public education: Uniform system of free public schools. The stability of a republican…
South Dakota has a stealth voucher program, allowing fatcat insurers and anti-public-school legislators to skirt the Establishment Clause and launder public dollars to subsidize religious schools.…