So much for certain Rapid City school board members' plan to focus on making elite athletes more elite. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan just told the Rapid City Area Schools and every other school in the country to stick…
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In our discussion of what if anything we should do to improve K-12 education in South Dakota, eager reader Heidi Marttila-Losure suggests that we need to get schools to stop hiring teachers to be coaches first and teachers as an…
School choice supporters, jump up and down! Athletic supporters... well, do what feels comfortable. This spring, thirty South Dakota schools pushed an amendment to state high school activity association rules that would have required open enrolling students to sacrifice their…
Spearfish High School will have a new English teacher this fall. Eric Lappe is leaving the prairie comforts of teaching social studies in Wilmot to come teach Spearfish youth the joys of literature, research, and composition. This work is important:…
I like open enrollment. It's the closest a sparsely populated rural state like South Dakota can get to offering practical school choice without shortchanging lower-income students and gutting the public school system (which is really what voucher fantasists want to…
Speaking of sports, the Sioux Falls School District wants to make more money on its games. The Sioux Falls school board will give second reading April 12 to a new activities broadcast access fee policy. Media outlets would pay the…
Eager viewer Michael Black was telling me last week that I needed to drop everything and watch Patrick Lalley talk about education on last week's podcast from that Sioux Falls paper. Mr. Lalley has spared me the trouble and published…