The 2022 legislative session begins this week (1/11) and ASBSD has you covered for coverage of the daily occurrences in the legislature. Four ASBSD resources will help you keep up-to-date on the 97th legislative session, they include: ASBSD Billtracker ASBSD Blog Legislative Session Documents List of Legislative Cracker Barrels ASBSD Billtracker provides you with a list of […]
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The 2022 legislative session begins on Tuesday, January 11th and the 97th legislative session features many important days during which many pieces of K-12 related legislation will be debated and voted on. This year’s session contains 38 legislative days and kicked off with Gov. Kristi Noem’s State of the State address at 1 p.m. on January 11th.
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Schools received a nearly unprecedented state aid increase proposal from Gov. Kristi Noem for the 2022-23 school year. At Gov. Noem’s budget address this month she proposed a 6 percent increase in state aid for the 2022-23 school year. The 6 percent increase brings $41 million in new, ongoing funding to state aid.
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Revenue collections exceeded projections for the fifth consecutive month. November’s revenue collections exceed the legislature’s adopted projections by $14.5 million, which was powered by sales tax collection being nearly $13 million above projection. The surplus revenue projection for the month brought the 2022 Fiscal Year total collections to nearly $88 million more than
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Member districts sent their delegates to Pierre recently to help set the legislative direction for ASBSD. Eighty appointed delegates – who were school board members tabbed by their local boards to represent them – attended the 2021 Delegate Assembly in Pierre to pass 40 resolutions and 12 standing positions that will help the Association
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Before we know it, legislative session will be here along with bills aplenty dealing with public education. ASBSD is requesting school boards and administrators sit down with there local legislators this fall to discuss the upcoming session and advocate for their support of South Dakota’s public education system. “Public education could face another
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ASBSD member districts each need to appoint a Delegate to represent their school board at the 2021 ASBSD Delegate Assembly where their vote on resolutions and standing positions will help set the legislative direction of the Association. Click the links to review ASBSD’s proposed resolutions and standing positions for the upcoming legislative session and click here to
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Wednesdays with Wade returns this fall in-person AND online. Join ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany at a school or on Zoom for any of the upcoming seven meetings where he will discuss ASBSD’s resolutions & standing positions, school funding and potential legislation for the 2022 legislative session, the need to advocate for support of
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ASBSD’s proposed legislative platform for the 2022 legislative session is ready for review ahead of this year’s Delegate Assembly. The resolutions and standing positions dictate the legislative direction of ASBSD and are voted on by member districts at Delegate Assembly. The 2021 Delegate Assembly is set for Friday, November 19 in Pierre at
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A report detailing teacher pay in South Dakota was recently approved by the board charged with reviewing its progress. Members of the Teacher Compensation Review Board (TCRB) approved its final report in September and sent it on to Gov. Kristi Noem and the legislature for review. Read the final report here. Conclusions in
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