HB 1234: Still a train wreck for education, still a waste of tax dollars. Sign and share this online petition to stop HB 1234 today! Josh Verges, education reporter at that Sioux Falls paper, chides teachers for their continued opposition…
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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…
Brookings School Board president Steve Bayer initially thought Governor Dennis Daugaard's merit bonus plan for one fifth of South Dakota's K-12 teachers sounded like a good idea. Then he looked at the facts and changed his mind. In a public…
I'm busy at work practicing making the top 20%. But for your consideration, Michael Black submits this study from Ludger Woessmann that suggests countries with some sort of teacher merit pay system have somewhat higher student test scores. Cue Tony…
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…
At the District 28 and 29 legislative crackerbarrel in Belle Fourche this afternoon, Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center) said that South Dakota consistently ranks among the top five states in student test scores. That claim partly motivated my question to…