Governor Dennis Daugaard is proposing a juvenile corrections reform package that will impose net new costs on the state of about $2.9 million. The proposal doesn't seem like a bad idea. But may I suggest a policy alternative... or better…
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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…
When I circulated petitions to refer HB 1234, Governor Daugaard's really bad education policy, to a public vote, the minority of people who said they support HB 1234 (now Referred Law 16, on your ballot!) made a few common arguments.…
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…
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:…