Department of Education Headlines

• Rapid City teacher presented with $25,000 Milken Award
  Congratulations to Alayna Siemonsma! The fourth-grade teacher and former literacy leader at South Park Elementary School in Rapid City is South Dakota’s latest recipient of the Milken Family Foundation’s National Educator Award.

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• Applications for Davis-Bahcall Scholarship, summer science program now open
• NAEP releases new reading vocabulary results
• New advanced, Common Core options available for Electronic Resources Challenge
• USDA Farm to Schools grant winners announced
• Hands-on materials available from the South Dakota State Historical Society
  
• South Dakota represented on Nutrition Association’s National Board of Directors