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…
Tag: budget
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…
The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
As I review the financial reports of the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, I find two seeming anomalies. MCEC includes financial position statements in nearly all of the…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…