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On a 9-3 vote, members of the House Local Government decided to approve a bill that would revise provisions on a petition to refer a school board’s start day decision. House Bill 1164 would require a petition to have five percent of the total number of registered voters voting in the previous general election, […]
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A bill that requires the reciting of the pledge of allegiance at the start of each school day in every public school classroom is assured of seeing the Senate. House Bill 1150 passed the House State Affairs committee and the House of Representatives on unanimous votes this week. ASBSD supports the bill.
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ASBSD’s Legislative Day brought school board members and administrators together with legislators to sit down and build and strengthen relationships. “We’re not here today to lobby you,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany told the attendees. “We’re here to get to know each other.” For photos from the event, visit the ASBSD Facebook page.
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Senate Education committee members stopped a bill that called for the repeal of the Common Core Standards on Tuesday. The committee voted 5-2 to kill Senate Bill 129. ASBSD opposed the bill. “School boards are in support of Common Core,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany said. “We debated this (issue) throughout the summer.
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South Dakota Senators showed their support for the three percent increase proposed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard with unanimous passage of Senate Bill 37. The bill that supplies school districts with the proposed three percent funding increase, which would set the per-student allocation at $4,764 for the 2014-15 school year. In addition to providing
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The final day of the fifth week of the 2014 legislative session proved difficult for K-12 education. Members of the House Appropriations committee voted to kill House Bills 1003 and 1004 on 5-4 decisions for each. ASBSD supported both bills. HB 1003 would have set the annual index factor increase for education funding
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The bill that supplies school districts with the proposed three percent funding increase from Gov. Dennis Daugaard passed through Senate Appropriations unanimously on Thursday. ASBSD supports the bill. In addition to providing the three percent increase, Senate Bill 37 sets the property tax levies for a school district’s general fund for fiscal year
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A week after action was deferred, House Bill 1205’s fate was decided in House Taxation. The committee chose to kill the bill, which called for the creation of the school district tax revenue fund to equalize dollars from revenue collected by school districts from the bank franchise tax, wind energy tax, and gross receipts
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Two bills that would help pave the way for the proposed three percent increase in funding for schools had hearings in Senate State Affairs on Wednesday. Senate Bill 157, which provides an appropriation to the Building South Dakota fund, and Senate Bill 158, which revises certain funding provisions of the Building South Dakota fund,
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There will be no new property tax classification for South Dakota. Members of the Senate State Affairs committee voted 7-2 to kill House Bill 1086, which created a new tax levy for a school district’s general fund for leased property. The premise of the bill had a similar fate in a Senate committee last
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