Belle Fourche Tackles Housing Market Failure with Governor’s Houses
The Belle Fourche Development Corporation recently won one of the state's fourteen workforce development grants with an affordable-housing plan that mirrors one proposed on the Madville Times seven...
View ArticleLeola Superintendent: Teacher Pay Depends on State Funding
Rebuttal of the week to gubernatorial malarkey on K-12 education funding comes from Leola superintendent Brian Heupel, who offers this observation on Governor Dennis Daugaard's persistent shirking of...
View ArticleMoonshot Teacher Pay Plan Makes Mainstream Press
Patrick Anderson features my moonshot plan to raise teacher pay $10,000, to 34th in the nation, on the education e-pages of that Sioux Falls paper. My plan secures that monumental raise, around $92...
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South Dakota 1% Take More than Half of New Post-Recession Income; Teachers...
Todd Epp posts data on what it takes to be a member of the 1% in South Dakota—$404,010. That threshold for earning more than 99% of South Dakotans is higher than the national threshold of $380,000 and...
View ArticleThree Bills Target Teacher Shortage: Weaken Unions, Promote Paras, Cover...
A few legislators are trying to do something about South Dakota's teacher shortage and the low pay causing it. Senator Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) and Rep. Jacqueline Sly (R-33/Rapid City) propose Senate...
View ArticleHigher Wages Draw More Talent to Legislature, Say Legislators
The House State Affairs Committee voted unanimously yesterday to pass three bills that could put more money in legislators' pockets. Are raises for teachers next? House Bill 1145 would give legislators...
View ArticleSenate Appropriations Agrees Higher Pay Recruits More Legislators
The South Dakota Senate is on its way to agreeing with the House that the primary cause of shortages of teachers and other workers is low pay. Yesterday, Senate Appropriations approved Senate Bill 170,...
View ArticleGraves Feigns Ambivalence, Wants Fewer Darn Teachers
Mitchell school superintendent Dr. Joseph Graves admits that he's ambivalent about Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed summer study of education... which, for a guy who has flacked for the Governor's...
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39th in Expenditures, 51st in Pay? Class Size Explains Daugaard’s Distraction
South Dakota ranks 39th for expenditures per K-12 student but 51st for teacher pay. I have heard Republican legislators respond to questions about teacher pay with that statistical comparison at both...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Loses Farms, Pays Hired Hands Well
Chuck Clement reads the USDA's latest report on Farms and Land in Farms and finds South Dakota lost 300 farms last year. That's a return to the long-term trend that South Dakota was briefly bucking:...
View ArticleBelle Fourche Tackles Housing Market Failure with Governor’s Houses
The Belle Fourche Development Corporation recently won one of the state's fourteen workforce development grants with an affordable-housing plan that mirrors one proposed on the Madville Times seven...
View ArticleLeola Superintendent: Teacher Pay Depends on State Funding
Rebuttal of the week to gubernatorial malarkey on K-12 education funding comes from Leola superintendent Brian Heupel, who offers this observation on Governor Dennis Daugaard's persistent shirking of...
View ArticleMoonshot Teacher Pay Plan Makes Mainstream Press
Patrick Anderson features my moonshot plan to raise teacher pay $10,000, to 34th in the nation, on the education e-pages of that Sioux Falls paper. My plan secures that monumental raise, around $92...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South Dakota 1% Take More than Half of New Post-Recession Income; Teachers...
Todd Epp posts data on what it takes to be a member of the 1% in South Dakota—$404,010. That threshold for earning more than 99% of South Dakotans is higher than the national threshold of $380,000 and...
View ArticleThree Bills Target Teacher Shortage: Weaken Unions, Promote Paras, Cover...
A few legislators are trying to do something about South Dakota's teacher shortage and the low pay causing it. Senator Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) and Rep. Jacqueline Sly (R-33/Rapid City) propose Senate...
View ArticleHigher Wages Draw More Talent to Legislature, Say Legislators
The House State Affairs Committee voted unanimously yesterday to pass three bills that could put more money in legislators' pockets. Are raises for teachers next? House Bill 1145 would give legislators...
View ArticleSenate Appropriations Agrees Higher Pay Recruits More Legislators
The South Dakota Senate is on its way to agreeing with the House that the primary cause of shortages of teachers and other workers is low pay. Yesterday, Senate Appropriations approved Senate Bill 170,...
View ArticleGraves Feigns Ambivalence, Wants Fewer Darn Teachers
Mitchell school superintendent Dr. Joseph Graves admits that he's ambivalent about Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed summer study of education... which, for a guy who has flacked for the Governor's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
39th in Expenditures, 51st in Pay? Class Size Explains Daugaard’s Distraction
South Dakota ranks 39th for expenditures per K-12 student but 51st for teacher pay. I have heard Republican legislators respond to questions about teacher pay with that statistical comparison at both...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Loses Farms, Pays Hired Hands Well
Chuck Clement reads the USDA's latest report on Farms and Land in Farms and finds South Dakota lost 300 farms last year. That's a return to the long-term trend that South Dakota was briefly bucking:...
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