ASBSD happily welcomed Holly Nagel to the team in October. Nagel joined ASBSD as the Chief Financial Officer and Protective Trust Services Director on October 15, replacing Matt Flett, who joined the South Dakota Department of Education. “I am very excited to join the ASBSD organization,” Nagel said. “My experience with ASBSD […]
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Below you will find the meeting agenda for the ASBSD Board of Directors meeting being held in Pierre, SD on Thursday, November 15. A PDF version of the agenda can be downloaded on the Publications & Forms page. ASBSD Board of Directors Meeting Ramkota RiverCentre, 11:00 a.m., Pierre, SD Call to Order – President Farrell 1.1 Welcome/Introductions
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ASBSD’s Delegate Assembly is the time and place to establish your state school board association’s legislative direction and share your district’s view on key legislative topics. Delegates will vote on ASBSD’s resolutions and standing positions, which set the legislative path for the 2019 legislative session. This year’s Delegate Assembly is set for Friday, November 16
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Learn more about managing risk in the new millennium by attending – FOR FREE – the 2018 Joint Safety and Loss Control Training Conference. ASBSD has joined the State of S.D. Office of Risk Management, S.D. Public Assurance Alliance, SDML Workers’ Compensation Fund, Safety Benefits, Inc. and Insurance Benefits, Inc. to sponsor the Conference
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Discuss the latest in K-12 education with fellow board members and administrators at an ASBSD Region Meeting this Fall. ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany will visit nine locations across South Dakota to discuss potential legislation for the 2019 session and gather feedback on ASBSD’s legislative Resolutions and Standing Positions, as well as detail the latest services
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Policies of a school district, especially those negotiated with bargaining representatives for the protection of teachers, have the full force and effect of law, and legally bind the school district. Wessington Springs Ed. Assoc. v. Wessington springs Sch. Dist., 467 N.W. 2d 101 (S.D. 1991). By Gerry Kaufman, ASBSD Director of Policy & Legal
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Join the best minds in school law this fall to learn about the latest in legal topics schools face and have your questions answered. ASBSD and COSA will host a School Law Seminar featuring a Tuesday night session discussing school district/superintendent employment contracts and a Wednesday session covering the new data breach reporting law,
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The board charged with studying South Dakota’s progress on teacher pay approved their report to Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Wednesday (8/29). On a 7-0 vote, Teacher Compensation Review Board members approved the report that will be submitted prior to the September 30 deadline with the following conclusions: The data demonstrates that South Dakota has
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Gov. Dennis Daugaard has proclaimed September Attendance Awareness Month. The S.D. Department of Education has been working to raise awareness about the importance of regular attendance through outreach to schools and other stakeholders. “Time out of school is learning lost,” Interim Secretary of Education Mary Stadick Smith said in a statement. “All it takes
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More than 1/3 of the public school boards in South Dakota earned statewide recognition for their dedicated participation in activities, board development and training and demonstrated leadership at various areas and levels. In the second year of ASBSD’s board recognition program: ALL, which stands for Act, Learn, Lead, 56 boards in South Dakota earned an ALL
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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.