Last Pitch Before Committee! Save our schools: sign and share this online petition today! Governor Daugaard's spokesman and point man on education policy Tony Venhuizen hands out details on changes to HB 1234, the Governor's education reform package. The math/science…
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Listen to Lee: there is no tenure! There hasn't been a legal impediment to terminating an educator in South Dakota since 1995.... There may have been a management issue that continued since 1995 as to whether administrators are doing their…
James Cutshaw, superintendent of the Wolsey-Wessington School District, testified against Senate Bill 85 last Thursday. In his five minutes (starting at 2:38:00 in the hearing record from SDPB) He many a number of comments relevant not only to the debate…
Following is the most concise indictment of Governor Daugaard's disastrous education reform package that I can offer. If you see the Governor, or if you are looking for prefatory comments for your crackerbarrel questions, try this: Governor Daugaard, you and…
Portmanteau du jour: Daugaard + reform = deform. South Dakota's K-12 system is Lady Liberty. "You maniacs! You blew it up!" As a measure of just how bad the outlook is for education in South Dakota politics, it qualifies as…