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Hoven School District has a new home for their high school and is in need of 60 school lockers. As the district continues to recuperate from a fire in May that destroyed their high school, they will be moving all 7-12 grade students and teachers into a building which previously housed the hospital and […]
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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy. HB 1030 enacted a new statute, SDCL 13-42-70, to help ensure confidentiality of school employee evaluations. It essentially says that any employee evaluation record or document, in written or electronic form, is confidential personnel information, is
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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy. School boards may want to consider reviewing and possibly amending their local school district’s current policy or enact such a policy if there is not currently a policy related to school board member code of ethics.
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Results from a survey recently released by the School Administrators of South Dakota (SASD) yielded troubling results about the state’s teacher pool. Based on responses from 80 percent of the public school districts in South Dakota, the SASD survey found that 258 teaching positions (over 30 percent) remained open as of May 28 from
Second Survey Says: Teaching Positions Tough to Fill Read More »
The South Dakota Legislature’s Legislative Planning Committee completed the introductory chapter of the two year study on K-12 education and its different funding components. Monday’s opener took on the tenor of the opening meetings for a House or Senate Education committee, as planning committee members heard presentations on the state funding formula for education,
On Monday (6/16), members of the Legislative Planning Committee will begin their work on an in-depth study of K-12 education and its different components. Topics of the study include, the education funding formula, the revenue, expenditures and accounting practices for education, salary needs, budget reserves and tax levies. “This is a vast, vast topic
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ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany, Leadership Development Director Randy Royer and Director of Policy and Legal Services Gerry Kaufman review a school board’s annual organizational meeting.
Open Meeting Series – Organizational Meeting Read More »
Watch Wade’s Welcome and then read The Bulletin. This month’s Bulletin provides you with donation information to assist the Hoven School District, a preview of the study of K-12 education set to begin this month, an announcement of a new online training site ASBSD is offering and much more.
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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy. Senate Bill 63: protects the privacy of individual student records. SB 63 prohibits the collection of student information not necessary for the calculation of funding for public education, the determination of student academic progress, state
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ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy. House Bill 1167: Allows schools to keep and administer epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases. HB 1167 authorizes schools to acquire and maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors pursuant to a prescription issued by an authorized
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