A bill to create Oceti Sakowin Community-Based Schools recently failed in the South Dakota Senate. Learn more about the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings curriculum and the next steps advocates plan to take to improve education outcomes for Native students in South Dakota on the next episode of South Dakota Focus, Thursday, February 11, at 8pm (7 MT) on SDPB1 and SDPB.org.
Joining host Jackie Hendry are:
- Senator Troy Heinert, (D-District 26), Senate Minority Leader
- Joe Moran, Director of Policy & Strategic Initiatives, SD Dept. of Education
- Sarah Pierce, Director, SD Education Equity Coalition
- Lori Simon, Superintendent, Rapid City Area School District
Also in this week’s program, Lee Strubinger talks with Susan Williams, executive director of the Transformation Project about the death of House Bill 1076 and other issues facing transgender people in South Dakota.
In this week’s “Why Is That?”, Seth Tupper explains the meat inspection rules and regulations that prevent South Dakota’s ag producers and small meat processors from selling meat across state lines and what Governor Noem and South Dakota’s congressional delegation are doing to change that.