Governor Dennis Daugaard offers a little good news for a minority of South Dakota college students but bad news for all Regental students. In the small good news, Governor Daugaard is willing to spend $1.274 million to increase the Opportunity…
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At next week's meeting on the School of Mines campus, South Dakota's Regents will discuss allowing our six public universities to fund scholarships with tuition remission and late-payment fees. The information sheet accompanying that agenda item itemizes the current sources…
South Dakota Republicans brag about their budget-balancing prowess. They don't like being reminded that they are balancing the budget by shifting burdens onto private citizens. Consider higher education. South Dakota is part of a national trend in which states are…
Last week Governor Dennis Daugaard awarded Critical Teaching Needs Scholarships to 19 education students going into K-12 special ed, high school math or science, or high school vo-tech: Dakota State University Mariah Grelson, Marshall, Minn. Nicole HighElk, Plankinton Eric Ruppelt,…
In good news from Pierre, Senator Russell Olson's bill to establish a need-based scholarship program for South Dakota's post-secondary students has yet to garner a nay vote. Senate Bill 237 zoomed through the Senate on Wednesday and now awaits the…
Senate Bill 233, the Critical Teaching Needs Scholarship Program, comes up for its first hearing this morning before Senate Education. If you followed South Dakota education policy last year, SB 233 should sound familiar: Last fall, voters overwhelming rejected comprehensive…
I want to be more positive about government. I need to be, to counter the Libertarian extremism that seeps into too much of our common civil discourse. But knowing that this year's South Dakota Legislature has dispersed from Pierre for…
[Yup, I screwed up my reading of HB 1166 in my first post. Let's try again!] Mr. Montgomery notes the eerie cries in Pierre of the ghosts of HB 1234, the mostly bad ideas for education reform that Governor Daugaard…