Rebuttal of the week to gubernatorial malarkey on K-12 education funding comes from Leola superintendent Brian Heupel, who offers this observation on Governor Dennis Daugaard's persistent shirking of responsibility for South Dakota's perennial barrel-bottom teacher pay: "The governor always says…
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The Belle Fourche Development Corporation recently won one of the state's fourteen workforce development grants with an affordable-housing plan that mirrors one proposed on the Madville Times seven years ago. The Belle Fourche housing plan also reveals a fundamental market…
You know that argument South Dakota Republicans like to make that South Dakota's purportedly low cost of living makes up for South Dakota's low wages? That argument is working for workers, says the Aberdeen Development Corporation, discussing the problem of…
The new Build Dakota vo-tech scholarship that Governor Dennis Daugaard and usury-billionaire T. Denny Sanford want to create is based on the argument that not enough South Dakota youngsters are going to vo-tech schools. The scholarship further assumes that if…
The Build Dakota Scholarship program created by Governor Dennis Daugaard and billionaire T. Denny Sanford promises 300 vo-tech students a year a free two-year education in return for three years of work in South Dakota. KELO says vo-tech programs in…
Governor Dennis Daugaard tells young people that they need to pick majors that will pay off financially. Then he and his party tell young people they need to go into teaching for love, not money. In that contradiction, something's got…
...sure, compromise effective policy, compromise best practices, compromise our souls... I learn from Michael Larson that the meatheads at that Sioux Falls paper think that the "solution" to low teacher pay is for teachers to compromise and accept the worst…
I didn't set out this week to pick on Representative-Elect Lana Greenfield, but her own words are making it clear she will make for easy blogging with her own burbling of GOP propaganda and sloppy thinking. KELO reports that even…