Gov. Dennis Daugaard has been busy signing bills and among them are two Common Core related pieces of legislation. Senate Bill 63 faced no opposing votes during its path through the legislature. The bill protects the privacy of student records by prohibiting the collection of student information including, political affiliation, religious practices and family …
It’s time for ASBSD and SASD to begin preparing for our annual convention. The 2014 ASBSD-SASD Convention is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, August 7-8 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. The ASBSD-SASD Convention is the premier learning event for South Dakota school board members and administrators and will feature over 20 breakout sessions …
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Friday marks the 37th legislative day in the 89th legislative session, leaving only “Veto Day,” which is scheduled for Monday, March 31, on the calendar. Following “Veto Day” ASBSD will provide a legislative summary report. Our summary will include three parts: overview of the bills that were passed and signed, review of potential …
The fervor surrounding school funding had been building. It started in 2011 when the state handed down funding cuts to balance the budget and progressed each year after. During the 2013 legislative interim when the legislature commissioned a school funding study details of an oncoming crisis were discussed. School districts were losing great …
On the 37th legislative day of the 89th legislative session, members of the House and Senate passed the state’s $4.3 billion general fund bill (Senate Bill 187) for fiscal year 2015. Among the many things the budget includes is a 3.35 percent increase in state aid to education, which was approved by members of …
A lot of the talk in Pierre throughout session revolved around legislators doing something above the three percent increase to state aid for schools proposed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard. On Friday, Joint Appropriators backed that sentiment by approving an amendment providing an approximately 3.35 percent increase – for $2.2 million total – to state …
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The discussion about the levels of school district general fund balances has subtly reemerged in the Capitol building during the home stretch of legislative session. During Friday’s Joint Appropriations committee hearing for Senate Bill 187 – the state’s general fund bill – Rep. Susan Wismer addressed the topic. “We are taking a snapshot …
An amendment that would have provided schools with a 3.4 percent increase in state aid was killed by the Joint Appropriations committee on Friday. On a 14-4 vote, committee members defeated the proposed amendment to Senate Bill 187, which is the general fund bill. Appropriators are putting the finishing touches on the general fund …
Two amendments introduced to the general fund bill that called for the per-student allocation to be set at $4,805 for the 2014-15 school year were defeated by the Joint Appropriations committee on Friday. Both amendments died on 14-4 votes, with one being tabled without discussion. Rep. Susan Wismer, who introduced one of the …
It was a bit anticlimactic in appropriations on Thursday, so far as school funding was concerned. Members of the Joint Appropriations committee met for a little over an hour and covered just over a 1/3 of the funding amendments submitted for Senate Bill 187, which is the general fund bill for Fiscal Year 2015. …
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