Suggested on DFP First: Kirkegaard Becomes Education Secretary
October 14: Eager reader Rorschach reacts to Melody Schopp’s retirement by asking, “In the game of musical chairs, which Pierre bureaucrat/GOP Party functionary will get her chair next?” My suggestion:...
View ArticleKirkegaard Signals Continued Influence of Melmer Machine in SD Education
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded me that Kirkegaard...
View ArticleOglala Sioux Tribe Opposes Kirkegaard Nomination to Education Dept.
Receiving a briefing from the Department of Education at its first meeting yesterday, the House Education Committee wondered whether it should refer to Don Kirkegaard as the Secretary-Elect, Interim...
View ArticleOpposite of Shocking: New K-12 Standards Largely Copy Old K-12 Standards
A glutton for punishment that even I didn’t want to incur, Megan Raposa analyzes the “new” South Dakota K-12 curriculum standards and finds, unsurprisingly, that they mostly just rearrange the...
View ArticleKirkegaard’s Out; Sutton’s In?
Gettin’ while the getting’ is good…. Today’s tea leaf says Billie Sutton is going to win the Governor’s race. Still-new Education Secretary Don Kirkegaard is quitting his state job to go superintend...
View ArticleKirkegaard Tired of Wisconsin Already, Coming Back to Black Hills
The West Bend School District in Wisconsin had to pay Don Kirkegaard $175,000 a year, plus $15,000 in moving expenses, to leave his plum post as South Dakota’s Secretary of Education in 2018 and come...
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