School Safety
No changes were made to the Senate Education committee for the 2022 legislative session. Sen. Blake Curd will serve as Chair of the seven-member Senate Education committee, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:45 a.m. during the 2022 legislative session. Let’s meet the committee members: Sen. Blake Curd (District 12) …
Board members, administrators and ASBSD must work together to advocate for support from the legislature for South Dakota’s public education system. An important part of those advocacy efforts is for member districts to appoint one or more board members to ASBSD’s Legislative Action Network (LAN), which is designed to activate designated members of local …
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 …
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. …
The South Dakota School Safety Center, which is a department with the state Department of Public Safety and provides many safety resources to schools, announced a partnership with the premier anonymous tip reporting platform designed for schools. P3 Campus, which supplements student safety and mental health initiatives for schools, is the industry leader in …
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The South Dakota School Safety Center is introducing a new opportunity for South Dakota Schools to keep kids safe and foster a positive school climate. The program is called “Handle With Care” (HWC) which promotse safe and supportive homes, schools and communities that protect children, and help traumatized children heal and thrive. HWC programs support children exposed to …
Grant funds administered through the South Dakota Office of Homeland Security are now available to South Dakota K-12 schools to increase school safety through threat assessment training. The program offers training to school officials on how to identify and deal with violent situations. Several South Dakota schools have already registered for the program, which …
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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 …
Member districts vote on legis. direction at Delegate Assembly Read More »
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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School districts are facing increasingly common cyber-attack vectors, including denial of service attacks, ransomware infections, and data breaches making the need for cybersecurity even greater. BIT and the DOE are partnering to expand the DDN services available to schools to include Cybersecurity Risk Assessments with a goal to ensure the district employs the technology, …
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