If everybody agrees on everything, you're still going to find things you disagree on. —Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth), interview, KJAM, timestamp 9:51, published September 28, 2012. I know from my daily classroom experience that when you're stringing together words off…
Posts tagged as “Referred Law 16”
Yesterday I noted that Rep. Bob Deelstra (R-9/Hartford) wasn't exactly crowing on his website about his willingness to buck the Governor and vote against House Bill 1234 last winter. That bill now faces warranted death by public vote as Referred…
Sibby's got to hate going to vote in District 20: the only State House candidates coming close to speaking his language are the Democrats. At a candidates' forum in Mitchell last night, Democratic challengers Dave Mitchell and James Schorzmann both…
A reader with a keen interest in the District 9 House race expressed deep disappointment with a flyer sent out by the South Dakota Democratic Party criticizing Hartford Republican Rep. Bob Deelstra. The reader is a vocal Democrat, but thinks…
Last July I discussed a report that found "stack ranking," a policy very much like the teacher evaluation system in Governor Daugaard's Referred Law 16, "crippled Microsoft's ability innovate." A blog-friend forwards me another response to that report that supporters…
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…
In the political video battle, opponents of Referred Law 16 outnumber proponents so far 5 to 1. The backers of Governor Daugaard's really bad education reform bill give us one teacher preaching math based on imaginary numbers. Opponents lined up…
The newest Dakota Poll finds that Governor Dennis Daugaard could get three black eyes at the polls next month. The phone survey of 400 likely South Dakota voters, conducted September 29 and 30, finds the Governor's two signature pieces of…