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Teacher Evaluations Based on Bubble Tests a Really Bad Idea: Vote No on 16!

In support of Referred Law 16, Governor Daugaard has been able to recruit one teacher with ties to the education-privatization movement (Milken has pushed privatization of education in Israel, too) and one administrator who resorts to vague anti-teacher generalizations. In…

Referred Law 16 Worse Than Policy Driving Chicago Teachers to Strike

In a Facebook post, Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) got me thinking about the possible impact of the Chicago teachers' strike on the campaign to overturn Governor Dennis Daugaard's terrible, horrible, no-good education reform law (Referred Law 16 on…

Participatory Budgeting Working in Chicago: Try It in Madison?

I have studied and written about participatory budgeting, a process that involves citizens in making decisions about how their local government spends their tax dollars. Now the Harvard Political Review finds an experiment in participatory budgeting in Chicago is working:…