2016 Legislative Session Archives - Associated School Boards of South Dakota

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: One voucher bill down, one upcoming, contact your Reps

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Two school voucher bills were introduced for the 2023 legislative session and are posted on ASBSD’s Billtracker page, with one having recently been defeated and another with a legislative committee hearing upcoming. You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the juvenile justice bills here, the bills that are moving on here […]

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2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Taxes, revenue & funding

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A handful of the pieces of legislation being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page during the 2023 legislative session deal with tax reduction or repeal in some manner and their outcome will inevitably be affected by the state’s revenue collections, with adoption of FY24 revenue estimates upcoming. You can read about the, the

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2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Week Three

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There’s three weeks gone in this year’s legislative session and the deadline to submit legislation comes this coming Thursday (2/2) so we’ll see what will join the 58-pieces of legislation currently being tracked on ASBSD’s Billtracker. Learn how ASBSD Billtracker works here. More than half of the 58 legislative proposals have ASBSD taking

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New scholarship program bill introduced, discussed in comm.

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A new scholarship program using public dollars for private education has been introduced as a bill and more detail was provided on the aims of the program. Senate Bill 100, which creates a scholarship program utilizing public funds for private education and other services, was introduced in the third week of the 2023 legislative

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State aid increase bill moved to Approps, funding issues discussed

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Five percent found six votes to advance it in the appropriations process. Senate Bill 24, which provides the 5 percent increase in state aid and revises the property tax levies for school districts, was referred to the Joint Appropriations committee on a 6-0 vote by the Senate Education committee last week (1/19). ASBSD is

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Will 5% Stem the Funding Issues in Public Schools?

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Neighbor States Widening Teacher Pay Gap The average teacher salaries in South Dakota continue to lag behind our neighboring states with SD’s teachers the only state of the group of seven not top $50,000 in average teacher pay in 2020-21 and facing a growing gap. The closest regional competitor, Montana, is more

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Teacher Openings Exceeding Record Levels

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Open teacher positions exceeded record levels in the previous school and calendar years and the concerning trend has continued its rise halfway through the 2022-23 school year. The ASBSD Teacher Placement Center, which is a website for school districts to post open positions in their schools, saw more than 3,000 positions posted during the

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Open teaching positions in South Dakota continue to add up

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Open teaching positions in South Dakota continue to add up each month. In November, the ASBSD Teacher Placement website, which is hosted by ASBSD for school districts to post teacher and administrator positions they are seeking to fill, logged 158 open teaching positions posted The 158 open positions in November are three times

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Schools meet teacher comp. targets, receive waiver extension

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All of South Dakota’s public schools met teacher pay targets for the year and will continue to receive a waiver from their general fund cash balances. School Finance Accountability Board members received their FY2022 Accountabilities report in which it noted all public school districts met their average teacher compensation target for the year.

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More than 450 open positions in schools

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Nearly 100 more position openings were posted in May this school year than last on ASBSD’s Teacher Placement website. At the end of May, ASBSD’s Teacher Placement had 480 open positions listed, which is an increase of 82 positions from May of 2021. The 480 open positions are almost 100 postings higher than

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