The South Dakota Legislature wrapped up business Friday, casting its final votes for the Fiscal Year 2017 budget and leaving town before lunch. That final budget, Senate Bill…
Tag: Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students
The final component of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon teacher pay raise plan is on the way to his desk. The Senate yesterday concurred with the House…
The funding mechanism for Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay plan may have survived Legislative debate mostly intact, but the new K-12 funding formula that would apportion that money to…
Habemus bill! Rather, we have a package of four bills from Governor Dennis Daugaard finally putting in legislative language his iteration of his Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan‘ to raise…
Republican pollster Glen Bolger has found stronger support for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay than this week’s liberal Dakota Free Press poll. Bolger’s Public…
Aberdeen’s Harvey Jewett, who’s coming up on his twentieth year of Regenting, spoke to the local paper this week about the upcoming Legislative Session and higher…
Former Senator Stan Adelstein is holding a press conference this morning in Rapid City to propose his own plan for funding the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s…
Former State Senator Stanford Adelstein pays me to advertise his blog, but he doesn’t have to pay me to link to his solution to raising teacher pay…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students released its 34-page, 29-recommendation final report on November 11, 2015. Governor Dennis Daugaard’s initial reaction to his task force’s report…