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Recently, the IRS has been issuing warnings about an email scam, which in the past year affected hundreds of employers and tens of thousands of employees, targeting school districts’ payroll and business offices. Scammers send a payroll or HR employee an email that appears to come from the superintendent or other administrator within the […]
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South Dakota’s avoided the worst of winter’s coldest weather, thus far, but the state’s revenue collection last month was below zero, per se. November’s reported revenue collections came in lower than any other month thus far in fiscal year 2018 with actual collections coming in nearly $17 million lower than the projection adopted by
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School board members, your national association is asking for your input on how they can better support boards. To improve advocacy for school board members and public education, the National School Board Association is seeking responses for their new NSBA Survey (click the link to take the survey). The survey, which will
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Due declining revenue in South Dakota, Gov. Dennis Daugaard proposed no inflationary increase for K-12 education for fiscal year 2019 during his budget address on Tuesday (12/5). “I cannot recommend inflationary increases, at all,” Gov. Daugaard said, adding that funding for education for the 2018-19 school year will be “tied to increasing student enrollment”
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Appropriators weighed in on the waivers received by school districts who did not meet one or both school finance accountability targets. At Tuesday’s (12/5) legislative Joint Appropriations Committee meeting, appropriators unanimously approved 15 outright and 14 conditional waivers previously granted by the School Finance Accountability Board. The mandates, which required 85 percent of the total state
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Next week South Dakota will bid farewell to a staple in education in the state. After four decades serving public education South Dakota Secretary of Education Melody Schopp is set to retire with her final day in the department on Friday, December 15. “We’re going to miss working with and alongside Secretary Schopp,”
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ASBSD and the ASBSD Protective Trust continually strive to be the leader in school risk and as such member districts and education co-ops in the workers’ compensation fund will be granted a Zoll AED Plus free of charge! “We believe this is a great investment in our school districts,” ASBSD CFO and ASBPT Director
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SafeSchools’ latest School Safety Newsletter is now available. Give the December edition of the School Safety Matters newsletter a read here. This month’s newsletter links to a newer SafeSchools course on Communication Skills and Style, shares information on Human Trafficking Awareness and much more with readers. For a slightly more than a year, ASBSD
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This month, members of the School Finance Accountability Board met to determine the fate of waivers presented to them from school districts who did not meet one, or both, mandates tied to ensure an increase to teacher salaries and approve their final report to the legislative Appropriations committee. “This very important work, which is
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Associated School Boards of South Dakota extends deepest sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of Representative Craig Tieszen. Rep. Tieszen was a courageous, honorable man and, along with the many that knew and loved him, the people of South Dakota have lost a dedicated public servant. “We’re extremely saddened by the news
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Associated School Boards of South Dakota is a private, non-profit organization representing more than 850 local school board members, the school districts they govern and the students they serve.