Todd Epp of Northern Plains News finds an interesting report from the Tax Foundation stating that South Dakota is the fifth-best state for stretching a dollar: Only Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Alabama can make a dollar go further. Dollars shrink…
Posts tagged as “wages”
I've lived in Spearfish. I've seen Gillette. No one can convince me that Gillette is a nicer place to live and work and love than Spearfish. But former Spearfish teacher Lynnae Fox disagrees. Wyoming's teacher pay just enticed her and…
When Charlie Hoffman and I got done riding four-wheeler around the prairie (and have I mentioned how big I smile when I say that phrase?), we went inside to talk politics. And oh, did we talk. Charlie Hoffman has served…
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,…
Hey, aspiring teachers! Don't run away! The state Department of Education just announced that your evals won't be counted in your school performance index! Now if we could just pay you enough to get you to apply. Superintendents testified to…
We spend a lot of time here in the blogosphere looking at South Dakota's wages from different angles: a regional low for workers' earning potential and for median wages, low wages motivating a quarter of our vo-tech grads to leave…
LeAnn Batiz, the latest employee in a string of employees to go public with revelations of Annette Bosworth's deceptive, manipulative, and irresponsible treatment of her employees, takes her story to the airwaves. LeAnn Batiz is not liberal plotter or tool…
Yesterday I highlighted the political significance of the letter Rep. Steve Hickey publicized from LeAnn Batiz, a former employee of Annette Bosworth who had to go on food stamps when Bosworth refused to pay her promised salary. That story matters…