By Wilmot Collins, Democratic candidate for United States Senate They said it couldn’t be done. A Liberian refugee who escaped a civil war could never be elected to office. And certainly couldn’t do it in Montana. They do not know Montana. They do...
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The waning twilight of the 2019 Montana legislative session featured a moment that perfectly encapsulated the long days before it happened. Representative Nancy Ballance, a Republican from Hamilton and chair of the all-powerful House Appropriations...
Almost all of us in education believe in the importance of high quality pre-K education, especially for students who come from disadvantage backgrounds. We almost universally agree that the state should fund high-quality programs that will give...
Written by Braydon Schilling Braydon Schilling is a nationally certified school psychologist who works in the Butte public school system. As a parent of two preschool age children and a school psychologist within the public school system, I am a...
This past Tuesday, the Helena School Board conducted what could be the most important meeting they’ve held in my almost two decades as a teacher in town. After weeks of muted rumbling and years of growing concern about the state of the budget...
Passage of Senate Bill 338, the Montana Museums Act of 2020, is very important to all of Montana by providing a thoughtful and financially responsible way for us to preserve our history from the local to the state level. History is important. To...
So my governor is “disgusted” with me and many other people. We stepped in the way of a Republican-sponsored Pre-K bill last night that got tabled with Republican and Democratic support. Soon after the vote, Governor Steve Bullock put...
Once in a while, friends need to deliver uncomfortable truths to one another. I imagine that’s what Governor Bullock and his staff imagined they were doing when they issued a statement yesterday condemning “two Democrats” for voting against the...
There is a lot of misinformation about the proposed pre-k bill going around the internet and social media, and it’s not the reality of what’s going on with our kids and families. House Bill 755 would create a statewide public pre-k program for all...
It’s well past the time for Montana to come up with a system to fund pre-K school for our students to make sure they are academically, socially, and emotionally ready for school, but a Republican proposal that the Governor’s Office has...
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Don Pogreba is an eighteen-year teacher of English, former debate coach, and loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. He spends far too many hours of his life working at school and on his small business, Big Sky Debate.
His work has appeared in Politico and Rewire.
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