Education
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Stories about the state's students, teachers, schools, colleges and the latest changes in education as well as coverage of the state spelling bee, which South Dakota News Watch sponsors.
Financial literacy aims to boost tribal sovereignty on Pine Ridge
With the 3rd-highest poverty rate in the country – behind only 2 other South Dakota counties – an organization based in Oglala Lakota County seeks to improve tribal sovereignty by teaching youth about finances.
Effort to highlight Midwestern history and academia comes to South Dakota
Can studying a region's past help to understand it in the present? The Lost Region Recovery Project attempts to answer that question for the Midwest, the only part of the U.S. without robust academic study dedicated to it.
News Watch and Dakota Wesleyan again sponsor spelling bee
State competition will be Feb. 7 at DWU in Mitchell and include up to 40 elementary and middle schoolers.
Free training on accessing South Dakota courts Oct. 10
Judges and staff will explain how the state court system works and how journalists and state residents can access court documents and attend hearings.
Boys and Girls Clubs innovating after budget shortfalls
The reservation programs are finding solutions in a budget flux: "Yes, the funding has been cut, but so what? These kids are getting it done anyway, and the Boys and Girls Club isn't going anywhere."
SDSU loses $86M in federal research funding
Budget cut was to 1 South Dakota State agricultural program; 3 other public and tribal universities take $1.6M hit.
SD Regents approves 'seismic shift' to allow guns on campus
Vote aligns policy with a state law passed this year to allow concealed carry weapons on state's 10 universities and tech schools.