Below you will find the meeting agenda for the ASBSD Board of Directors meeting being held in Pierre, SD on Friday and Saturday, April 21-22. A PDF version of the agenda can be downloaded on the Publications & Forms page. ASBSD Board of Directors Meeting Holiday Inn Rushmore Plaza Hotel, 12:30 p.m. (MST), Rapid City, SD […]
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Associated School Board’s Protective Trust invites school districts to apply for the Voya Unsung Heroes grant. Voya Financial partners with ASBPT to provide our members life insurance and has provided nearly $5 million in awarded grants in the past two decades. Review and complete the online application here. Grants are given to K-12
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SafeSchools’ School Safety Newsletter for April is now available. Give the latest edition of the School Safety Matters newsletter a read here. April’s newsletter focuses on a district’s role in child abuse prevention, a safety alert on a social media app causing concern, SafeSchools’ Accident Tracking system, new online Paraeducator Training and much more.
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Is your district in compliance with the school finance accountability requirements established through the 2016 education funding package? Download the S.D. Department of Education’s Information on Accountabilities sheet here. For fiscal year 2017, school districts had two accountability targets to meet related to teacher compensation: Total Compensation Accountability – requiring districts to put
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Legislative appropriators recently discussed their role in the accountability waiver process. “We’re walking in some new ground here,” Sen. Larry Tidemann, Chair of the Appropriations committee, said during the committee’s first interim meeting of 2017. The Appropriators reviewed the School Finance Accountability Board’s adopted accountability rules and how the committee fits in the
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Preparing for all types of disaster is of the utmost importance in school safety. The South Dakota Office of Emergency Management is hosting a FREE, two-day course in April to help school district officials prepare for all types of potential disasters. District officials can register for the Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools course,
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BoardDocs provide school boards and districts state-of-the-art services that save money, streamline operations and reduce time spent producing board packets and in 2017 has expanded their subscriber support offerings with a new Best Practices program. Learn more about BoardDocs’ “Best Practices” webinars in the latest edition of their board management newsletter, which also features information
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School Finance Accountability Board members met for the first time in 2017 and adopted a slightly amended version of the board’s rules. SFAB’s rules outline the different facets of the board’s work including the waiver request process, which requires waiver requests be submitted to the board before the first Friday in November, the documentation school
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School board members and superintendents remind your district’s high school principal(s) to identify and submit the name(s) of the academic top one percent of the 2017 senior class to be honored at the Academic Excellence Recognition Banquet. Gov. Dennis Daugaard and ASBSD, in cooperation with the Department of Education and the School Administrators of
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A group charged to review school district compliance with the requirements of the state’s school funding formula is seeking input from school officials on their proposed rules. Members of the School Finance Accountability Board are scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 16 to review and possibly approve proposed rules for the board.
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