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Educational success for Native Americans in SD sometimes found outside traditional schools
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories in Part 1 of a two-week special report in which South Dakota News Watch will examine the historical and current educational achievement gap between Native American and white students in South Dakota.
This week: An examination of the problem
Native American students left behind by SD education system
Editors note: This is the first of two stories in Part 1 of a two-week special report in which South Dakota News Watch will examine the historical and current educational achievement gap between Native American and white students in South Dakota.
This week: An examination of the problem and its
Rural SD schools face unique challenges that can affect learning
WOONSOCKET, S.D. – Small, rural school systems in South Dakota and across the country face sometimes daunting challenges in providing a strong education to students.
Limited funding, difficulty in hiring and retaining good teachers, remoteness and transportation challenges, high poverty rates among students and reduced access to college-preparatory courses can
Only half of SD students proficient in English; less than half in math and science
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said she is disappointed in recent statewide standardized test scores indicating that just over half of students were proficient in English language and fewer than half showed proficiency in math and science.
The results of the South Dakota Department of Education 2019 Report Card, based
SD among worst for ‘brain drain’ as highly educated people continue to flee the state
Despite years of effort to reverse the trend, South Dakota remains among the worst states in the nation in terms of losing its most highly educated citizens to other areas of the country, according to a new report from Congress.
The loss of skilled, educated residents can slow the state’
Damaging debt: College grads stung by broken promises of federal loan forgiveness program
Hundreds of South Dakota residents are caught in financial limbo wondering if the tens of thousands of dollars they owe on student debt — and which they were promised would be forgiven if they entered public-service careers — will actually ever be eliminated.
Those South Dakota residents include teachers, police officers, employees
Damaging debt: SD college graduates weighed down by heavy student debt
South Dakotans owe more than $1.5 billion to the federal government on loans they took out to finance their educations and many borrowers are finding themselves crushed under the weight of their college debt, even many years after they graduated.
About 52,000 South Dakotans have some debt from