interested party: Parsley: Daugaard education task force hasn't followed through

10/21/20

Parsley: Daugaard education task force hasn't followed through

Republican former Governor Denny Daugaard describes Melody Schopp's breast implants

K-12 Achievement: D (65.2), Status: D- (62.5), Change: F (57.6), School Finance: D (66.3), Spending: F (48.6) and a third of qualified teaching grads left South Dakota while the remainder struggled with certification: that's what education looked like during the Daugaard years.

Ashamed of being the only state without at least one gold or silver medal school under Daugaard South Dakota education officials were too embarrassed to even provide permission to US News to publish the state's Advanced Placement results in their rankings.

'Common Core' is just a poor choice of words to describe education standards chosen every seven years, according to Republican former SD Secretary of Education Melody Schopp. Many called for her resignation after Scott Westerhuis killed his family and himself after yet another scandal rocked education funding.

Val Parsley Age: 68. Town: Madison. Political Party: Democrat. Occupation: Retired from 34 years in secondary public education. Education: BA from South Dakota State University in English and German secondary education and MA from the University of South Dakota in secondary administration. Family: Husband, Scott. Three adult children: son Nick, daughters Caitie and Chrissy, and grandson Archer.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force in 2016 worked to increase funding for education. A half-cent sales tax increase had been approved to go to education with the majority earmarked for teacher pay plus a 3 percent annual raise in state support to education or the cost of living, whichever was less. Since 2017, the state hasn’t followed through with the law. If the legislature had followed through, education would be sufficiently funded by now. It is unsettling that we have so many people suffering from mental health issues that are not being recognized or addressed, and suicide rates continue to climb. According to sdsuicideprevention.org, suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in our state, but is second among 15 to 34-year-olds. In 2019 alone, there were 185 suicides in South Dakota. Mental health practitioners need more support from state government.
Read the rest at the Moody County Enterprise.

Thanks to Johnson and the Greedy Old Party teachers’ unions get the shaft but police unions get the cash. https://t.co/LltBGhmXuH #sdleg #SouthDakota https://t.co/hziYVxl5zs
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) October 19, 2020

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Wild Horses of Red Rock

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