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Each month ASBSD President Pam Haukaas will highlight a topic, which is helping advance K-12 education in South Dakota. It has been a fantastic ride! At the awards Luncheon during the ASBSD-SASD Convention, I will finish my tenure as ASBSD president and turn the reins over to the capable hands of Denise Lutkemeier. …
Do you know a board member from another school district? Get to know one at the Board Member (With)Outpost at the 2014 ASBSD-SASD Convention. Stop by the (With)Outpost, meet your peers from other school districts and have a conversation about everything and anything that impacts school boards. The (With)Outpost will be located at the …
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Find the secret vendor in the ASBSD-SASD Convention’s Exhibit Hall and have a chance at $500! Visit the exhibitor booths, ask if they’re the “secret vendor” and place the card you receive in the drawing box located at the registration table by the Exhibit Hall entrance doors. A winner will be drawn on …
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One thing was clear following the latest of the Legislative Planning Committee: those in the education field know there’s a crisis in the classroom. A procession of superintendents testified before the committee – charged with completing a long-term study of K-12 education and its funding components – on the teacher shortage during the July …
Final revenue figures for the 2014 fiscal year budget came in higher than the revised revenue projections adopted by the legislature during the 2014 session. Jim Terwilliger of the S.D. Bureau of Finance and Management presented members of the interim Joint Committee Appropriations with an approximately $9.9 million surplus ($2.6 million in tax receipts …
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Discussion about capital outlay got in-depth for the first time during the legislative interim. The legislative planning committee – charged with completing a long-term study of K-12 education and its funding components – and the Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force heard presentations on capital outlay at their latest meetings in July. S.D. Division of …
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Below you will find the meeting agenda for the ASBSD Board of Directors meeting being held in Sioux Falls, SD on Wednesday, August 6. A PDF version of the agenda can be downloaded on the Publications & Forms page. ASBSD Board of Directors Meeting Sioux Falls Convention Center – Room 6-7 – 12:00 Noon …
The Legislative Planning Committee charged with completing a long-term study of K-12 education and its funding components learned of the potential affects equalization of the other revenue school districts receive could have on K-12 community. Department of Education Director of Finance Tammy Darnall said the discussions of other revenue usually focus on utility, wind …
ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy. On July 28, 2014, new South Dakota Administrative Regulations (ARSD) will become effective. These new regulations allow school employees (other than school nurses) to be trained in the subcutaneous (under the skin) administration of insulin and …
The legislature’s Agricultural Land Assessment Implementation and Oversight Advisory Task Force will hold a meeting next week (Tuesday, July 22) that could impact K-12 education. The Task Force, made up of eight legislators and six other individuals, will hear a report from a summer work group concerning the capital outlay tax and other school …
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