With the fate of many of the K-12 education bills decided or in their final legislative stages, the focus in the final two weeks of the legislature’s main run turns to funding. This week, Senate Bill 49, which sets the School District General Fund levy, target teacher salary and overhead rate for FY 2022, will […]
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ASBSD Board members met online recently and received a legislative update and discussed next year’s officers. Executive Director Wade Pogany provided the Board of Directors with an update from the 2021 legislative session, including funding and key bills. “Money is still in play,” Pogany said, noting the two biggest funding pieces were the
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As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis continues efforts to gauge the extent of the disease’s disruption on the economy—including on school districts, as well as city and county governments—of the Ninth District, a region that includes South Dakota, and Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan.
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There will be no special legislative session this month, which means schools will receive the two percent funding increase prescribed by state law on July 1. “We will not be having a special (legislative) session in June,” Gov. Kristi Noem said at her press conference on Thursday (6/4), adding that her administration would “continue
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Two percent is still currently in the cards for school districts for the 2020-21 school year, but the possibility of a special session looms. At the end of the legislative session and prior to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the state, Gov. Kristi Noem and the legislature came together to support a two
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In its final vote, a compromise bill on capital outlay provisions proved to have overwhelming support. House members passed Senate Bill 170, which revises certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds, on a 65-3 vote. Among the four votes it took between two committees and two chambers, the bill only had four “No” votes.
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A compromise on revisions to the different capital outlay provisions is getting closer. Just one legislative hurdle remains for Senate Bill 170, which revises certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds, after last week (2/25) Senators passed it on a 35-0 vote and on Monday (3/2) House Education committee members passed it 12-0. ASBSD
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Compromise was reached in capital outlay legislation last week. On a 6-1 vote, Senate Education committee members passed a freshly amended version of Senate Bill 170, which revises certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds. The latest version of SB 170 makes multiple changes to the Capital Outlay fund, including: Amends the
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Legislators had other plans for an other revenue equalization exclusion. Senators defeated Senate Bill 111, which excludes certain wind energy tax revenue from the state aid formula, on a 12-22 vote on Tuesday (2/11). SB 111 would have excluded wind energy from the current other revenue equalization process by going through an eight year
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Three bills are in the queue will decide what happens with the future of the Capital Outlay fund. House Bill 1198, which repeals certain Capital Outlay provisions, Senate Bill 94, which revises provisions for the capital outlay fund, and Senate Bill 170, which revises certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds, are all
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