The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is not ready to pay for competitive teacher salaries yet, but he is ready to pay for lawyers. In the FY2017 budget proposal released…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
Bob Mercer joins many other South Dakotans in wishing that Governor Dennis Daugaard would use his budget address this afternoon to address corruption in state government. It seems…
Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…
Republican activist Jason Glodt shoehorned his way onto the agenda of the Jolene’s Law Task Force yesterday. Co-opting precious minutes away from a meeting dedicated mostly to…
School reserve funds are among the tea leaves on the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s agenda this week. Just how much money have our school districts socked…