Education funding

Cartoon economy Education funding Governor Rounds Republicans Road Funding Rounds South Dakotans State Funding State Legislature Taxes

Rounds Family Gravy Train to end? Don’t count on it.

l3wis December 1, 2008 0Comments

Education funding Open Meetings Rapid City

What is it w/SD school boards and closed door meetings anyway?

l3wis November 28, 2008 0Comments

This time it isn’t in Harrisburg. Surprise!

When serving the public, even in a non-elected, volunteer role, you still have an obligation to your duties. I remember getting gaveled by Mayor Munson at a SF City Council meeting for making a comment about the Ethics Committee being political appointees (which they are) and he went off on a tangent about how they are volunteers, blah, blah, blah. Well goody-goody gumdrops, that volunteerism should not subvert their duties.

from the Black Hills Monitor;

And committee chairman Dennis Popp says the group isn’t elected and doesn’t represent anybody. Usually, school superintendents and chiefs of police aren’t elected either, but they’re required to do the public’s businessâ€¦.in public!

What is creepy about this is that it wasn’t the RC school board that had the meetings it was a volunteer subcommitee made up of business people, that’s scary. I find more and more that business groups in SD love property and sales tax increases because it doesn’t affect them just the working stiffs they pay low wages to already. If they are giving advice to a school board, it better be out in the open, for our wallets sake!

Sailing on the seas of cheese

l3wis November 26, 2008 0Comments

Bill Thompson District 13 Education funding Rounds South Dakotans State Funding

Rounds Turns it up a notch

l3wis November 18, 2008 0Comments

All of sudden, Mikey becomes Mr. Glass half empty;

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Mike Rounds says next year will bring the “worst budget scenario that we have seen,” and he doubts there will be much of an increase in state funding of schools.

But Bill Thompson is ready to set him straight,

Democratic state Rep. Bill Thompson of Sioux Falls, who is on the House education committee, said education is an investment.

“In the House, there are too many people who see education as an expense, and that’s the basic philosophical difference,” he said.

It would make no sense for Rounds to cut education even if the budget is tight, according to Thompson, a retired teacher.

“My question to the governor would be, ‘Is education your No. 1 priority?’ It should be, in terms of economic development and in terms of how much of the state budget that goes toward education,” he said. “Education is not frosting; it’s absolutely crucial and should be the last area for where we look in terms of cuts.”

I’m gonna say it, it is time for the minority Democrats to grow a sack and go after this Governor like pitbulls, without lipstick. Bill has a good start, and he is respected enough to take the bull by the horns.

Education funding Rounds School Laptop Program

School Laptop program; money in the toilet

l3wis November 12, 2008 2Comments

Here’s an idea King Rounds; How about spending education money on good teachers and books instead of contracts with campaign contributors.

“If we can’t get the parts, we can’t fix the machines,” Shane Steckelberg, the director of technology for the Dakota Valley School District, told the newspaper.

Chalk up another great idea from the governors office.

Rounds Family Gravy Train to end? Don’t count on it.

What is it w/SD school boards and closed door meetings anyway?

Sailing on the seas of cheese

Rounds Turns it up a notch

School Laptop program; money in the toilet

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