Repeating a line from President George W. Bush in 2002 and President Barack Obama in 2011, President Donald Trump told Congress and the nation last night that education is…
Tag: vouchers
Senator Mike Rounds said South Dakotans don’t have to worry about his constituent-defying vote to confirm the President’s dangerously unqualified Education Secretary because her signature plan, vouchers…
Does no one in the Republican Party respect the will of the voters? Senator Mike Rounds admits that a majority of South Dakotans who contacted…
Former Madison superintendent Dr. John Sweet thinks billionaire Betsy DeVos is a really bad choice for U.S. Secretary of Education. The retired education expert urges us to write our…
Here’s why we don’t count on private sector charity to provide vital public services: Students whose families pinned private school hopes on a new state-subsidized scholarship…
I’ve been calling Senator Phyllis Heineman’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) self-serving “tax-credit scholarships” stealth vouchers since she first floated the plan in the 2015 Legislature. Now that Heineman’s school-privatization…
The Trumpist Party is waging war on public schools. The Republican nominee’s son, a graduate of an elite private school that no government subsidy will or should ever make…
Remember how our Legislature passed stealth vouchers to give their insurance company pals tax breaks for laundering public money into private-school scholarships? Even if we set aside…
KOTA TV makes a couple of interesting notes about Senate Bill 159, the stealth vouchers bill signed into law by Governor Dennis Daugaard two weeks ago: The stealth…
While South Dakota’s Republicans use stealth vouchers to undermine public education and line the pockets of their friends in the insurance industry, Arizona Senator John McCain…