I am now batting .000 as a bill proponent. I came to Pierre this morning to testify in favor House Bill 1223, which would have ended South Dakota's involvement with the Common Core standards and with any "multistate educational standards…
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…
Union County Democrat Ann Tornberg shares a letter she has sent to Democratic Party county officers statewide before Thanksgiving to convince them to pick her as the state party's next chair. At the top she makes clear that she will…
When I first read about Daugaard Chief of Staff Dusty Johnson's comments contrasting the economic growth of the two Dakotas last week, I was puzzled as to why Johnson would think it necessary to tear down our northern neighbors' Bakken…
David Newquist is provoking all sorts of good discussion with his diagnosis of South Dakota as hopeless for young progressives. Heidi Marttila-Losure of Dakota Fire has weighed in with her optimism. Now Zach Crago, deputy exec of the South Dakota…
The Displaced Plainsman catches Education Secretary Melody Schopp's announcement of the educators and other citizens picked to do the dirty work of HB 1234, Governor Daugaard's ugly education reform bill. The teacher evaluation group faces the difficult task of resolving…
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