South Dakota’s 88th legislative session kicks off its second week this morning. The second meeting of the Senate Education Committee meeting leads off the day with Secretary of Education Melody Schopp will be presenting the DOE’s educational outcomes plan for the coming years.   Last week saw 133 bills filed, but a mere six listed […]

ASBSD’s new Bill Tracker program is now live and populated with bills. Technical issues delayed the uploading of bills temporarily, but the problems have been resolved.   Bill Tracker will be regularly updated as new legislation related to K-12 education is introduced.   You’ll notice the look of Bill Tracker has changed since previous years because this

The House and Senate Education committees have started their meeting schedules early in this session.   The House Education committee kicked off the 88th legislative session’s committee schedule on Wednesday with a report from Secretary of Education Melody Schopp on the Department of Education’s educational outcomes.   On Thursday, the Senate Education committee met for

How are those two things related?   They were the topics covered by ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany at this morning’s House Education Committee meeting.   Pogany was on hand to discuss ASBSD and its purpose and goals, but, before that, as Committee Chair Rep. Jacqueline Sly put it “to help us with the alphabet

The first week of the 2013 legislative session is complete and a total of 133 bills have been introduced, but, so far, legislation related to K-12 education has been minimal. As we know, however, that will change.   One piece of legislation already introduced that ASBSD is closely monitoring is Senate Bill 15. The bill

This week marks South Dakota’s School Board Recognition Week.   School Board Recognition Week is your district’s opportunity to publicly thank the men and women who serve on your local board of education. We hope it will be a time your students, staff and community share their appreciation for the leadership provided by school board

Likely the first of many, ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany will make an appearance at the House Education Committee meeting on Friday morning and discuss ASBSD with the committee of 15 representatives.   “It’s a great way to introduce our association to the committee and share with them our purpose in and mission for K-12

From yesterday:   Gov. Daugaard gave the State of the State address. Read about it here.   Representative Brian Gosch of District 32 was elected Speaker of the House and Representative Dean Wink of District 29 was elected Speaker Pro Tempore.   Senator Corey Brown of District 23 was elected President Pro Tempore.   Quotes

Today marks the beginning of the 88th South Dakota Legislative Session. The 38-day session kicks off at noon with legislators taking their oaths of office.   The first day will be highlighted by Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s State of the State address, which is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Coverage of the State of the State

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard offered up his 2013 State of the State Address this afternoon with little mention of K-12 education; a change from a year ago when the Governor introduced the omnibus education reform plan, House Bill 1234, during that address.   “K-12 education flew under the radar during the Governor’s State of