On Wednesday, we published an article predicting that the North Dakota Senate would defeat House Bill 1545, which called for the study of replacing property tax with an alternative source of revenue. That was after the Senate Finance & Taxation [read more…]
Nine days ago we published an article expressing serious concerns over House Bill 1104. In a nutshell, this bill proposed to give additional authority to the Superintendent of Public Instruction over all licensed early childcare providers when it comes to [read more…]
At the end of October, I wrote about the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) adopting the “North Dakota Learning Standards Birth to Kindergarten 2018 Edition“. Yes, you read it right— birth to Kindergarten. The standards are the result of a joint [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…]
Two words are often found in debate regarding education, and we hear them most from Republicans— local control. It’s the argument — and the right one I might add — that so long as we’re going to have an education [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…]
Long-time followers of The Minuteman know that I’ve had issues in the past with our state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kirsten Baesler. Whether it was things like her outright deception regarding the Common Core State Standards and the delayed process [read more…]
Last month North Dakotans were invited by our Department of Public Instruction Superintendent, Kirsten Baesler, to attend one of six “listening forums” held across the state on school safety. The meetings were “organized by the Department of Public Instruction, the [read more…]
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