AFP-SD Deputy Director demanding support for local control of education?

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From facebook:

AFP-SD Deputy Director Jennifer Beving is on facebook apparently demanding local control of schools in all decision making.  Does that mean they going to hand a legislator a bill to introduce to walk that walk?

Just asking.

17 thoughts on “AFP-SD Deputy Director demanding support for local control of education?”

  1. I would love to help a local control bill as long as local control goes all the way to parents being able go direct where the tax $ allocated to their children can be spent. 😉 Let’s do it!

    1. think it’s pretty clear from the press release that this would allow local control to determine the specific policy metrics used to implement the plan, which is ultimately for the best. Many other states have already taken similar steps, and this approach is the right move for improving educational outcomes. Among them, this stands out as the most conservative, small-government solution to addressing the issue.

      1. That local control you speak about already exists. If a school wants to ban phones in school, they already can. Some schools in this state have and most schools have a hybrid policy. We don’t need this.

    2. I would love for you to stop showing up to district cracker barrels pretending to reside in said district and eating up time that should be given to citizens.

    3. Can you bring a bill as well on a similar front. I have never used my local fire department, ambulance service, never attended the Central State’s fair, not sure even what West Dakota Water Development Fistrict does, or driven on most of the roads East of Rapid City. Can we get this money back to the taxpayers who don’t or won’t use these services?

  3. Out of state Koch Bros Billionaire funded organization pushing publicly funded vouchers for private schools which would torpedo our public school systems. This has been a fiscal black hole with all kinds of problems in other states with very little transparency.

  4. I don’t think she said, parental control on everything, I think she said parental control on this issue.

    And doesn’t practically every school already have a policy on this? It seems like kind of a nothing burger announcement.

    1. Correct. Her and AFP hate Dusty and Public Schools equally. AFP has been losing relevancy in recent years and she is driving it into the gutter.

      1. I’m not suggesting this but have wondered if other people saw a decline since the director change. I agree with most of AFP’s direction but the attitude seems to have changed. It’s more of a ‘far-right my way or the highway’/’if you don’t agree with us, you’re a RINO’ type attitude over the last few years. Or perhaps it’s the age difference. Can’t pinpoint the difference/change I’m seeing.

        1. I have seen this as well. I have always been for school choice and that seems to br one of AFP’s main tenants. I absolutely hate the way that AFP and certain legislators have been promoting school choice by attacking our State’s public schools. They take test scores completely out of context and the DOE does not step in and provide any perspective. I think school choice can be done and promoted without constantly attacking public education. We have been fortunate to use the open enrollment process that South Dakota offers and utilize hybrid options. Lastly the term “Government Schools” is tired, played out, and a Koch Bros buzz word. If that’s the case I guess we drive on Government roads, allow our children to play in Government parks and every producer who accepts a subsidy is a Government Farmer or a Government Rancher?

  6. I don’t hate or dislike Dusty. I think he’s a good guy and I personally think the idea of a local school board, principal, teacher, etc. banning phones from the classroom is a good one but I do agree with the idea that a fundamental tenet of Republicanism is local control. I can’t reconcile “local control” with a law passed at the state level that takes that control away from the school district on an issue like this one. It seems like so many Republicans preach “freedom from regulation” and “local control” when they don’t like a policy that someone wants to introduce at the state or federal level but then turn around and propose the very same type of top down regulation when it’s an idea they like.

  7. I would guess that most administrators would love to see the cell phones out of the classroom.

    More than likely they don’t ban them because they don’t want to put up with the dung that parents will unleash on them.

  8. Is that Anthony lobbyist with this crazy far right Koch bros out of state Billionaire backed organization or is he with another Koch Bros out of state far right organization.

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