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    February 16, 2019
    Members of Friend de Coup perform their community show on Jan. 17 at the Mitchell School District Performing Arts Center. The SDHSAA has decided to eliminate the state show choir competition and will go to an all-state format in 2020. (Matt Gade / Republic)
    Show stopped: Format issues lead SD to abandon state show choir competition
    It was three years and done for the South Dakota High School Activities Association state show choir competition. South Dakota started a state...
    news/educationFebruary 16, 2019 - 7:00am
    February 12, 2019
    $7M expansion for MTI ag facility in the works
    Mitchell Technical Institute agriculture programs continue to be in high demand, creating a "good problem" and expansion of campus facilities....
    news/educationFebruary 12, 2019 - 8:12am
    February 11, 2019
    Mitchell's Gubbrud to be promoted to GBR principal
    Current Mitchell Middle School teacher Chris Gubbrud has been selected as the new principal of Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary, pending Mitchell...
    news/educationFebruary 11, 2019 - 6:00am
    February 9, 2019
    Sebastian Drapeau, left, joins the Fancy Dancers of the Marty Indian School after their powwow dance performance at Armour High School on Friday. (Sheila Slater / Republic)
    Showing the way in Armour
    ARMOUR -- The quiet beats of the drums, the Butterfly Dances by traditional Native American performers, and the suspense of learning about another...
    news/educationFebruary 9, 2019 - 8:10am
    February 8, 2019
    Children at a Duluth library work together on an escape room scenario. Now, one Dickinson, N.D., teacher has incorporated escape room scenarios into her English classroom. File photo.
    ND teacher brings escape room concept to classroom
    DICKINSON, N.D. -- For some students, a classroom can be a place from which they can’t wait to escape. Dickinson High School English Language...
    education/newsFebruary 8, 2019 - 4:29pm
    Chamberlain High School. (Republic file photo)
    Tracing the steps of a fallen SD hero
    CHAMBERLAIN—One hundred years after the end of World War I, the history of that era in American history lives on. And a Chamberlain High...
    news/educationFebruary 8, 2019 - 5:59am
    February 7, 2019
    Mitchell district uses third snow day of the school year
    There's no day like a snow day for students. For Mitchell, the the cancelation of classes on Thursday marked the third time they've had to call...
    news/educationFebruary 7, 2019 - 8:19pm
    No school for Mitchell School District, John Paul II, MTI on Thursday
    Mitchell School District schools, John Paul II Elementary school, and Mitchell Technical Institute will start classes two hours late on Thursday,...
    news/educationFebruary 7, 2019 - 4:37am
    February 6, 2019
    Educators seek to reduce need for college remedial courses
    Every year, about 30 percent of South Dakota high school graduates who enroll in a state university must take remedial courses in math or English...
    news/educationFebruary 6, 2019 - 10:15pm
    February 5, 2019
    Colome school bond measure falls short
    COLOME—The Colome Consolidated School District came up short in a bid for a new school addition Tuesday in a public vote. Needing 60 percent...
    news/educationFebruary 5, 2019 - 9:23pm
    Mitchell High School Principal Joe Childs stands for a photo in October 2018 in the school hallway. (Matt Gade / Republic)
    MHS' Childs named state principal of the year
    Mitchell High School principal Joe Childs has been named state Principal of the Year for 2018-19 by the School Administrators of South Dakota....
    news/educationFebruary 5, 2019 - 5:59am
    February 4, 2019
    Mitchell High School's Jamison Gross and Wyatt Haibeck perform their one-act play — “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged): Romeo and Juliet” — at the South Dakota High School Activities Association one-act play festival in Aberdeen. (South Dakota Public Broadcasting photo)
    Mitchell claims superior mark at state one-act festival
    ABERDEEN — The Mitchell High School one-act play cast and crew earned a superior rating on Saturday at the South Dakota High School Activities...
    news/educationFebruary 4, 2019 - 7:21pm
    February 2, 2019
    'To Kill a Mockingbird' substitute irks Duluth teachers
    DULUTH — Nearly a year after announcing it would remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Huckleberry Finn" from its English curriculum, the Duluth...
    news/educationFebruary 2, 2019 - 3:03pm
    English learners and DWU students share language, culture
    A multicultural communications class at Dakota Wesleyan University has teamed up with an English class at Cornerstones Career Learning Center to allow students to interact with another side of their community. The partnership began when Brenda Blumenberg, who teaches the Cornerstones...
    news/educationFebruary 2, 2019 - 7:00am
    The Wagner varsity girls basketball team, the Red Raiders, adjust their SOC socks ahead of their game against the Lake Andes AC/DC girls team at the high school's gym on Thursday. SOCs stands for Saving our Community, a new grassroots initiative that seeks to educate about mental health and prevent suicide. (Sheila Slater / Republic)
    Socks for a good cause in Wagner
    WAGNER—Socks come in pairs, and you are not alone. That's the message coming from a new movement in Charles Mix County called SOCs, which...
    news/educationFebruary 2, 2019 - 7:00am
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