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Policy Alert: Confidentiality of school employee evaluations

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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1030 enacted a new statute, SDCL 13-42-70, to help ensure confidentiality of school employee evaluations. It essentially says that any employee evaluation record or document, in written or electronic form, is confidential personnel information, is …

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Policy Alert: School Board Member Code of Ethics

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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   School boards may want to consider reviewing and possibly amending their local school district’s current policy or enact such a policy if there is not currently a policy related to school board member code of ethics. …

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Second Survey Says: Teaching Positions Tough to Fill

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Results from a survey recently released by the School Administrators of South Dakota (SASD) yielded troubling results about the state’s teacher pool.   Based on responses from 80 percent of the public school districts in South Dakota, the SASD survey found that 258 teaching positions (over 30 percent) remained open as of May 28 from …

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K-12 study starts

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The South Dakota Legislature’s Legislative Planning Committee completed the introductory chapter of the two year study on K-12 education and its different funding components.   Monday’s opener took on the tenor of the opening meetings for a House or Senate Education committee, as planning committee members heard presentations on the state funding formula for education, …

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K-12 study kicks off next week

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On Monday (6/16), members of the Legislative Planning Committee will begin their work on an in-depth study of K-12 education and its different components.   Topics of the study include, the education funding formula, the revenue, expenditures and accounting practices for education, salary needs, budget reserves and tax levies.   “This is a vast, vast topic …

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Policy Alert – Authorized Signatures

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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1126: Allows an appointed school board member to countersign school board payments.   House Bill 1126 amended SDCL 13-8-26 and as of July 1, 2014, school boards have the right to designate which school board …

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Policy Alert: Electronic Payment

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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1104: Allows local governing bodies to require the payment for certain goods and services by electronic transaction.   SDCL 4-3-27 was amended by House Bill 1104.   SDCL 4-3-27 authorizes school officials and employees to …

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Policy Alert: Board Member Conflict of Interest

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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   SB 82: Increases the allowable financial level of purchases, sales, and contracts made by public officers of political subdivisions.   SDCL 6-1-2, the statute which identifies certain exceptions to the governing board member conflict of interest statute …

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