A bill expediting the enrollment process of students from military families transferring into a district passed out of legislative committee. On a unanimous vote, House Military and Veterans Affairs committee members approved an amended version of House Bill 1044, which authorizes enrollment in a school district to which a students’ family is locating to, […]
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A proposed study of special education saw its way across the hall in the Capitol. The Senate Education committee (5-1) and full Senate (29-5) passed Senate Bill 3, which creates the Special Education Task Force to further examine special education in South Dakota. ASBSD supports the bill. We need to have a
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Senators sent on a bill resetting the membership of a special education oversight board and establishing it in state statute recently (1/22). On a 34-0 vote, Senators passed Senate Bill 1, which establishes the Extraordinary Cost Oversight Board in state statute and amends membership. Sen. Ryan Maher noted on the Senate floor that
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Gov. Kristi Noem’s official budget proposal is coming this week. Last Thursday (1/17), Gov. Noem sent official request to the South Dakota Legislature’s House and Senate for a joint session of the chambers on Wednesday, January 23 beginning at 1 p.m. “I will be giving my budget address, which will outline a lot
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A bill resetting the membership of a special education oversight board and establishing it in state statute started its journey forward in the legislature on Thursday (1/17). Senate Education committee members unanimously passed Senate Bill 1, which establishes the Extraordinary Cost Oversight Board in state statute and amends membership. The bill emanated from
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Two education related bills crossed the Capitol halls last week. Senate Bill 24, which revises certain provisions relating to state assessments, passed the Senate Education committee on 7-0 vote and then, an amended version, passed the full Senate on 34-0 vote. The bill removes the requirement that state assessments be given to students
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Committee members wasted no time in acting on legislation in House Ed. In their first committee meeting of the 2019 legislative session, House Education committee members unanimously passed two education related bills. House Bill 1001, which requires the recalculation of the special education disability levels’ amount allocation to take place every two years,
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Gov. Kristi Noem touched on a few K-12 topics during her inaugural State of the State address on Tuesday (1/8). Among those topics was a proposed requirement that every high school graduate be able to pass the United States Citizenship exam. “Civics needs to reemerge,” Gov. Noem said during her address, adding that
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The holiday shopping season brought in the green to keep state revenue figures out of the red. Revenue collections in December came in slightly more than $10 million higher than what the legislature adopted for the month during last year’s legislative session. The December figures were a needed rebound over November’s numbers, which were
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The 2019 legislative session begins on Tuesday (Jan. 8) 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 94th legislative session, they include: ASBSD Bill Tracker ASBSD Blog Legislative Session Documents List of Legislative Cracker Barrels ASBSD Bill Tracker provides you
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