A new partnership is powering a new paperless board meeting option for ASBSD members. ASBSD and Sparq Data solutions have launched a paperless board meeting service for Association members known as: “We wanted to offer our members the best available option in paperless board meeting services and our partnership with Sparq Data […]
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Policies of a school district, especially those negotiated with bargaining representatives for the protection of teachers, have the full force and effect of law, and legally bind the school district. Wessington Springs Ed. Assoc. v. Wessington springs Sch. Dist., 467 N.W. 2d 101 (S.D. 1991). By Gerry Kaufman, ASBSD Director of Policy & Legal Services
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Former Superintendent Jim Holbeck has joined the staff at ASBSD. Holbeck, who most recently served as Superintendent in the Harrisburg School District and has decades of experience in public, K-12 education, has been named the ASBSD Board Development Director and Board Member Services Director. He succeeds Dr. Randy Royer who retired in August.
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Those high school administrators interested in completing training for opioid antagonist administration will have another opportunity in September. The South Dakota Department of Health will host a FREE webinar covering the Naloxone in High Schools Project, which is the opioid antagonist administration project initiated by the passage of Senate Bill 84 during this year’s
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Committee members convened recently to continue their study of special education in South Dakota. The 14-member legislative interim study committee, which was created through this year’s passage of Senate Bill 3, spent time discussing the challenges at hand and possible solutions. “What started out addressing one thing has opened up many other things,” Rep. Nancy Rasmussen,
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Through the first two months of available activities and training events, more than 30 school boards have earned a board recognition award. This year (2019-20) marks the fourth for ASBSD’s board recognition program: ALL, which stands for Act, Learn, Lead, and recognizes board members’ dedicated participation in a variety areas, with points earned by participating
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ASBSD has continued its coordinating role for the Emergency School Bus Mutual Assistance Pact between school districts, which operates in the event a bus traveling outside of its home district fails and is in need of assistance. ASBSD has collected and supplied a list of emergency phone numbers for the cooperating districts so they
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September marks Attendance Awareness Month. “It’s back-to-school season, which is an exciting time,” South Dakota Secretary of Education Ben Jones said in a press release. “The research tells us that half the students who miss two to four days of school in September will end up missing almost a month of school over the
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Districts can now be trained to enhance students’ workplace skills free of charge via a developing state department program. The S.D. Department of Labor and Regulation is developing a student version of their Bring Your “A” Game to Work training, which offers an engaging curriculum designed to foster foundational workplace skills and work ethic.
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ASBSD has a new President of the Board of Directors after the gavel was passed at the August meeting. Madison Central School Board President Tom Farrell completed his year-long term as ASBSD President by passing the gavel to Wilmot School Board President Denise Lutkemeier. “This has been a wonderful experience and wonderful opportunity,”
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