2014 Legislative Session

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2014 Legislative Session

Great turnout for ASBSD’s Legislative Day

ASBSD’s Legislative Day brought school board members and administrators together with legislators to sit down and build and strengthen relationships.   “We’re not here today to lobby you,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany told the attendees. “We’re here to get to know each other.”   For photos from the event, visit the ASBSD Facebook page. …

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Senate Ed. stops anti-Common Core bill

Senate Education committee members stopped a bill that called for the repeal of the Common Core Standards on Tuesday.   The committee voted 5-2 to kill Senate Bill 129. ASBSD opposed the bill.   “School boards are in support of Common Core,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany said. “We debated this (issue) throughout the summer. …

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Three percent bill through Senate

South Dakota Senators showed their support for the three percent increase proposed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard with unanimous passage of Senate Bill 37.   The bill that supplies school districts with the proposed three percent funding increase, which would set the per-student allocation at $4,764 for the 2014-15 school year.   In addition to providing …

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Three percent bill through committee

The bill that supplies school districts with the proposed three percent funding increase from Gov. Dennis Daugaard passed through Senate Appropriations unanimously on Thursday.   ASBSD supports the bill.   In addition to providing the three percent increase, Senate Bill 37 sets the property tax levies for a school district’s general fund for fiscal year …

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Comm. has other plans for other revenue bill

A week after action was deferred, House Bill 1205’s fate was decided in House Taxation.   The committee chose to kill the bill, which called for the creation of the school district tax revenue fund to equalize dollars from revenue collected by school districts from the bank franchise tax, wind energy tax, and gross receipts …

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Payment bills pave way for three percent

Two bills that would help pave the way for the proposed three percent increase in funding for schools had hearings in Senate State Affairs on Wednesday.   Senate Bill 157, which provides an appropriation to the Building South Dakota fund, and Senate Bill 158, which revises certain funding provisions of the Building South Dakota fund, …

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Tech, certificate and hours bills advance

Three bills supported by ASBSD made it through House Education on Wednesday.   House Bill 1005, which appropriates $2.85 million for technology-oriented professional development to be used for teacher compensation, passed and was referred to House Appropriations on 15-0 vote.   The bill was previous killed by the committee, but was brought back for reconsideration …

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Debate continues on CPR requirement bill

Parties on each side of the debate on a bill that would require schools to teach CPR and make it a graduation requirement will have more time to compromise following Monday’s Senate Health and Human Services committee meeting.   Committee chair Sen. Jean Hunhoff said “there is an interest” in Senate Bill 145, but the …

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