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• "You don't get into a mess overnight, and you don't get out overnight," Bolin said about the three year transition away from Common Core.
• Rep. Kristin Conzat, R-Rapid City, said she was still on the fence about the standards. She asked her colleagues to, "sift through all the nonsense on both sides."
• Conzat and Rep. Jacqueline Sly, R-Rapid City, both acknowledged that legislators had always trusted the state Board of Education to choose standards for the state's schools. Sly defended the standards.
• "Did you know about the standards from the 1980s, '90s and 2000s?" Sly asked, "We've never taken an interest in that."
• Opposition to the standards in South Dakota and other states, including Wisconsin and Indiana, has led to legislative challenges. Last week a South Dakota Senate resolution failed to get a two-thirds majority needed to conduct a two-year study of the Common Core standards. But the Senate did pass two related bills. One would prevent expanding Common Core standards to other academic subjects until July 2016, while the second seeks to protect the privacy of student records.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A former Sioux Falls middle school teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
• Sioux Falls police say 33-year-old Tonya Marie Drueppel, of Sioux Falls, is charged with three counts of 4th-degree rape and two counts of sexual contact with a child under 16.
• The investigation started Jan. 22 when police received a referral from the Department of Social Services.
• According to a court document, the relationship started in 2012 when Drueppel was an Axtell Park Middle School teacher.
• The district says she was with the district from 2009 through the end of the last school year.
• Drueppel is in jail on a $500,000 cash bond. Her first court appearance is scheduled for Thursday. It wasn't clear if she had an attorney.
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