Associated School Boards of South Dakota

February28: 2023 Legislative Cracker Barrel list

Legislative Cracker Barrels in your area offer access to your local legislators, as well as the chance to hear their answers on a variety of legislative topics. Below you will find a list of dates and locations of legislative cracker barrels being held throughout South Dakota that have been posted thus far. Please

February09: 2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Bills that move on…

Fifty pieces of legislation being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page remain in the process for the 2023 legislative session. You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the school voucher bills here, the juvenile justice bills here and the bills that have been defeated here. Here is a breakdown

February08: 2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update:…Bills that are gone

Nearly one-third of the pieces of legislation being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page have been ousted from the process for the 2023 legislative session. You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the school voucher bills here, the juvenile justice bills here and the bills that are moving on here.

January30: 2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Week Three

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

January30: One more LAN Update webinar coming up

South Dakota’s public education system needs supportive voices. Many voices. Our advocacy efforts must be united, informed and ready as the 2023 legislative session is likely to bring legislation with potentially long-reaching harmful effects to public schools, especially to funding. “Vouchers, tax cuts, uncertain state aid increases, and that’s just the funding side,”

January23: State aid increase bill moved to Approps, funding issues discussed

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

January13: 2023 ASBSD Legislative Resources

The 2023 legislative session began this week (1/10) 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 98th legislative session, they include: ASBSD Billtracker ASBSD Blog Legislative Session Documents List of Legislative Cracker Barrels ASBSD Billtracker provides you with a list of

December24: Meet with your legislators and ask them the important questions

School Board Members and Administrators, please meet with your legislators before the 2023 legislative session begins in January. Click here to see what legislators represent your district and click here to view legislator contact information. “We need our school leaders to meet with their legislators before session begins,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany

December04: Delegates approve legislative platform after great discussion at Assembly

Board members representing their districts at the 2022 Delegate Assembly engaged in a robust discussion on the proposed legislative platform of ASBSD. Delegates in attendance approved 44 legislative resolutions, which are pointed legislative policy positions, and 12 standing positions, which are broad statements on legislative policy, that compromise ASBSD’s legislative platform for the 2023

December03: ASBSD gavel passed, legis. priorities and enrollment categories approved by board

ASBSD’s gavel was officially passed at the most recent Board of Directors meeting, where members also approved proposed legislative priorities for Delegate Assembly and new enrollment categories for Association regions. ASBSD President Lisa Snedeker of Woonsocket was officially passed the gavel from Past President Eric Stroeder of Mobridge-Pollock at the board’s November board meeting.