Back in November, I wrote about a bill being sponsored by Rep. Jim Grueneich (R – District 12) that proposes allowing school districts to submit an application to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for approval to utilize a “virtual education [read more…]
In a despicable show of support for the North Dakota House Assistant Minority Leader Karla Rose Hanson (D – District 44), eight — yes, EIGHT — legislators, who call themselves Republicans, signed on to House Bill 1537— otherwise known as [read more…]
At the end of last month, North Dakota’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler announced 13 finalists for open positions on North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education. Among them was former Bismarck Mayor Mike Seminary. We made our case of [read more…]
Last time we published anything about Mike Seminary, he had just been walloped by Steve Bakken in the June election for Mayor of Bismarck. That 20-point defeat earned Seminary the title of “Former Mayor of Bismarck”. It was a fitting [read more…]
Two North Dakota lawmakers are proposing a bill in the upcoming 2019 Legislative Session that has the potential to change the way schools across the state handle their snow days. In fact, if passed, the legislation would provide school districts [read more…]
Plagiarism– Noun. The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. If your education was anything like mine, you were taught from grade school through college that plagiarism is an unacceptable [read more…]
North Dakota’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) received a black eye of sorts late last month from an education think tank known as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. In ranking the 17 ESSA plans submitted so far by 16 states [read more…]
The 2016-2017 school year has just finished up for schools across North Dakota. But as they head into summer break, education is still on the minds of many. Take for instance the upcoming Governor’s Summit on Innovative Education that will [read more…]
On September 12th of last year, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler notified the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium that North Dakota would be withdrawing from the SBAC effective June 30, 2017. This decision meant that the state would have an [read more…]
When the Founders drafted the United States Constitution, they turned out a document that was simple and limiting. James Madison said,"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined." A reading of the document [read more…]
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