The South Dakota House of Representatives will be voting on a bill to require posting and teaching Ten Commandments in every K-12 classroom in the state. What do you think about this?

It’s been a great week for VHS basketball. Our women’s varsity team beat undefeated Sioux Falls Christian. Then the men’s varsity team came from behind to beat Groton. Hooray Tanagers!

The same folks telling you vouchers will work now were the same folks telling you they’d work a decade ago too. They were wrong then and they’ll be wrong again. The difference is just that now we won’t know—because the new voucher bills avoid the scrutiny of past oversight.

New: Dozens of Head Start programs have been waiting a week for federal reimbursements that typically arrive overnight. Some may shut down if the funds don’t arrive soon, leaving thousands of children in the lurch. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." - Martin Luther King, Jr. May we all embody that spirit and hold tight to our compassion. #MLKDay

Flexibility fuels surge in alternative schooling, while critics point to lack of accountability southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/01/10/h...

‘Big gray area’: SD authorities fear alternative instruction means ‘no-schooling’ for some students southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/01/10/s...

@joshcowenmsu.bsky.social I enjoyed watching you on C-SPAN today. Please keep up the good work.

How much do vouchers cost public schools? A new report from EPI's @hilwething.bsky.social examines the hidden costs of vouchers. She finds that public school students will bear the cost of children participating in voucher programs. #EduSky #EconSky www.epi.org/publication/...

School choice groups split over Noem’s education savings account plan southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/01/09/s...

They falsely claim relocation of school funds won’t have a negative impact on public schools. Okay, Pinocchio! Why is your nose growing? www.kotatv.com/2025/01/09/s...

School Nurses are much more than Band-aids & boo boos. Our work transforms health & education equity. Read more in my interview with EdSurge. #schoolnursing #Healthequity www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...

A new Calif law requires teaching students about fake news and critical thinking starting this fall: calmatters.org/education/k-...

💡 Mistakes are part of learning, and AI is no exception. Like Ted says, “Be a goldfish.” How do you help your students bounce back from mistakes while exploring new tools? #EdTechCruise

I’m returning to my Alma mater after 25 years to teach a course in lifespan development.

“In Teachers We Trust” is an outstanding guide to teaching like Finnish teachers. Why? Because Finland’s students have out performed their international peers for decades. Our district is gradually adopting many of these methods with very positive results.

This book describes the Finnish culture which we would do well to emulate.

South Dakotans for preservation of public education: The divergence of South Dakota taxpayer dollars into private, alternative instruction (home school) or for-profit institutions undermines Article VIII of the South Dakota Constitution. www.plaintalk.net/local_news/o...

Watch out South Dakota here come school vouchers! Groups fight effort to install school vouchers in South Dakota. https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2024/11/29/education-groups-warn-school-voucher-push-south-dakota/ #EduSky #Education #SchoolVoucherScams

"A $4 million proposal by South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem to help students enroll in private school and other forms of alternative instruction would undermine public education by diverting state money to unaccountable entities, opponents say."

Our shared public dollars should support South Dakota public school students, not private institutions. True educational opportunity does not come from a program that takes public money to support schools that can discriminate and indoctrinate. 6/6

RM Scott on re-election to serve as Ranking Member of the 119th Congress: “Regardless of which political party is in charge, my mission is unchanged: building an America where everyone can succeed.”

School buildings are crumbling all over the country and Republicans are wasting their time with culture wars. Watch as @repbonamici.bsky.social puts student safety over political games. youtu.be/_msUBC5sXk8

While Republicans have spent this Congress debating culture wars–they've remained silent on the real issues facing our education system. Watch RM Scott call on Congress to prioritize legislation that addresses the issues that students *actually* face.⤵️ youtu.be/F1nKgsO0aps

A Blessed Day to All. At the end of The Privateers I write about school vouchers as part of a right-wing political Christianity that separates and isolates children. Today’s @peter-wehner.bsky.social on Jesus Christ’s “radical inclusion” reminds us to do otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/o...

pfps.org/josh-cowens-... Josh Cowen, an expert on school vouchers and professor at Michigan State University, is publishing a newsletter on the topic.

www.voanews.com/a/finnish-yo... What are we doing to help children be discriminating viewers of media?

Current Affairs report on the status of America’s schools and some suggestions on improving matters. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/05... #schoolsky

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

Why does the small nation of Finland continuously lead the pack in high quality education? toolbox.finland.fi/life-society...

Now here is a good idea! #edusky www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/de...

Forbes reports on the edfort to create federal school vouchers. #edusky www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

“Eligibility does not mean access,” —I said to @propublica.org The worst school voucher myth is that they let families choose—the schools are still doing the choosing. Today’s lack of transparency is a willful effort to keep new segregation concerns under wraps www.propublica.org/article/segr...

The question posed in Utah is the constitutionality of school vouchers. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

Finland’s 5th principle is to recognize the “out-of-school situations” play a significant impact on learning.

Finland’s 5th principle is realizing that “out-of-school situations” have a major impact on learning.

The fourth pillar of the Finnish system is to encourage administrators to teach in the classroom and personnel need to be experienced and qualified. #eduaky

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The voucher lobby says vouchers don’t cut public school $ because they’re paid by other state budget lines. That’s like saying gas price hikes don’t hurt a family’s ability to pay a mortgage. And relies on fantasies that below-COLA increases aren’t real dollar cuts (they are).

Via @hilwething.bsky.social and @epi.org, an invaluable tool for helping to calculate the hidden costs of school voucher programs.

Read it and weep for our children. gizmodo.com/arizona-scho...

Crucial new resource on the fiscal harm caused by school vouchers that, unlike voucher industry estimates, actually (shocker!) understands how state education budgets work. @epi.org www.epi.org/publication/...

The U.S. House of Representatives has once again failed to fund the government. That’s what happens when you Musk around with Congress.

www.yahoo.com/news/state-l... Gov. Noem deeply cuts State Library staff before her anticipated departure to join the Musk administration as the head of Homeland Security. #edusky

The third principal Finland built its exceptional schools on is providing “permanent mechanisms to secure and enhance children’s well-being in all schools.” #edusky