School board members and administrators can add another date, or six, to their calendar as South Dakota’s Blue Ribbon Task Force – charged with solving the teacher shortage, reviewing school funding and examining student achievement – has scheduled six listening sessions across the state. Meetings are expected to run from 6:30 to 8 p.m., …
Ed. task force listening session dates set, input needed Read More »
Below you will find the meeting agenda for the ASBSD Board of Directors meeting being held in Keystone, SD on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25. A PDF version of the agenda can be downloaded on the Publications & Forms page. ASBSD Board of Directors Meeting K Bar S Lodge, 12:00 p.m. MST, Keystone, SD …
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The 90th legislative summary concluded last week with and with the conclusion comes the publication of the 2015 ASBSD Legislative Summary. You can download the legislative summary here. Or visit our Publications and Forms page – link at the top of the homepage – and download the summary under the “2015 Legislative Session Documents” header. You can …
One out of three teaching candidates who graduated from a South Dakota college or university in the past year took an out-of-state position according to a study completed by the South Dakota School Administrators (SASD). The latest data revealed 260 of the more than 770 graduates who obtained an education related degree were placed …
One-third of teaching candidates leave state after graduation Read More »
Gov. Dennis Daugaard made the first wave of appointments to his Blue Ribbon Task Force recently. In February, Gov. Daugaard announced plans for the Task Force, which is charged with solving the teacher shortage, reviewing school funding and examining student achievement. The Task Force will be co-chaired by Rep. Jacqueline Sly and Sen. …
South Dakota legislators will return to Pierre next week to wrap up the 90th legislative session. On Tuesday (3/31), legislators will return for “Veto Day” with three bills up for review, but just one related to K-12 education. Senate Bill 100, which proposed the creation of a leased residential property tax classification, was …
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As the frantic work by legislators began on adopting South Dakota’s fiscal year 2016 budget a topic that dominated the lead in to and first weeks of legislative session faded away entirely. Capital Outlay received very little in the way of discussion – aside from the passage of Senate Bill 191 and tabling of House …
After some debate, it was decided the manner in which schools would receive a two percent increase in state aid proposed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard had to pass. Senators voted 26-7 and Representatives 48-18 to pass Senate Bill 53, which provides the proposed two percent increase to the state aid formula and brings the per-student …
Schools in line to receive two percent increase in state aid Read More »
Two K-12 related bills met their ends on Thursday (3/12) after legislative conference committees failed to concur on compromises. House members voted 49-17 to ultimately defeat a bill calling for the repeal of the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s policy on transgender student participation in sports. Rep. Jim Bolin, who was a …
Bills calling for repeal of SDHSAA policy, funding online ed. resources defeated Read More »
With the revenue projections presented the financial parameters were set for South Dakota’s fiscal year 2016 budget. Legislative appropriators adopted the revenue projection recommendations presented by the appropriations subcommittee for the FY16 budget, as well as the FY15 updated projections. Rep. Dan Dryden said the revenue projections presented by the Bureau of Finance …
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