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…
Posts tagged as “Referred Law 16”
Did we win? Did we really win? We killed Referred Law 16, Governor Dennis Daugaard's stinky pack of ideological teacher-busting policies, at the polls on November 6. The Governor and some minions sputtered some nonsense about ignoring stupid voters and…
That Sioux Falls paper asks the question the Governor the million-dollar question: when it comes to education reform, what are we trying to fix? If the problem we hope to solve is better student performance, as Daugaard has suggested, then…
KELO actually tries to apply a little heat to Governor Dennis Daugaard for saying the voters who turned down his two (count them! two!) signature pieces of legislation Tuesday were just tired and stupid. Sensing the Facebook rage over the…
South Dakotans spanked Governor Dennis Daugaard hard at the polls Tuesday, overturning two of his signature pieces of legislation with resounding No votes on Referred Laws 14 and 16. Predictably, Governor Daugaard denies that any such thing happened. He says…
...but not the folks who vote for those bad policies. Governor Dennis Daugaard's director of policy and communications Tony Venhuizen said last night that it was "Not a great election for Republicans nationally. But it's shaping up to be a…
The National Education Association has contributed $523,000 to the effort to defeat Referred Law 16 here in South Dakota. That's over 97% of the No campaign's war chest. Pat Powers points out the NEA's involvement, which in the world of…
Excellent! The 2012 Legislative campaign is going exactly as I planned. By placing three significant policy issues on the ballot, we voters have forced legislative candidates to talk about real substantial questions about our priorities in Pierre. Nathan Johnson reports…