Mitchell school superintendent Dr. Joseph Graves admits that he's ambivalent about Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed summer study of education... which, for a guy who has flacked for the Governor's worst policy whims, could be read as stern condemnation. But I'm…
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Former legislator Rod Hall renews his challenge to perennially vacillating legislative aspirant and educational not-so-goodnik Joe Graves in a letter to the Mitchell Daily Republic. Graves, superintendent of the Mitchell school district, sent up trial balloons in 2004 and 2008…
Pat Powers gets it wrong—I could fill pages with posts starting with those words. But what fun would that be? Still, in his Joe Graves flog-prep, Powers throws up another fallacy in his discussion of whether the Mitchell school superintendent…
Sibby, save us! Mitchell school superintendent Joe Graves wants to run for Legislature: Monday during the Mitchell Board of Education meeting at Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary, Graves, the school district superintendent, announced his plan to run for the South Dakota…
Mitchell Superintendent Joe Graves usually flacks for whatever the state wants. But at last night's Mitchell school board meeting, he threw arch-conservative opponents of the dreaded Common Core standards a bone: During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve…
I've ridden Joe Graves's case all year over his flacking for Governor Daugaard's really bad ideas for education. The Mitchell superintendent's sour grapes on last month's election results give me plenty of reason to keep riding. Graves manages to make…
District 8 Senate candidate Charlie Johnson says he hasn't heard one educator express support for Referred Law 16, Governor Daugaard's ideological school-wrecking plan. Here's one: Nicole Keegan of Rapid City East Middle School: Nicole Keegan (not to be confused with…
Mitchell school superintendent Joe Graves is still bucking for a promotion. He took to the pages of the Mitchell Daily Republic last week to continue his shameless flacking for Governor Daugaard's really bad education policy, Referred Law 16. Remarkably, given…