As the Legislature underdelivers on the Blue Ribbon panel’s promise to pay all South Dakota teachers what they are worth, the Legislature also adds a new unfunded mandate and…
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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…
Yesterday the House approved Senate Bill 72, South Dakota’s latest sex-hating, woman-hating, Constitution-hating abortion restriction. This time, we’re writing dubious “science” about fetal pain (see also here and here) into state law and…
Two weeks ago, 21 House members voted against providing $67 million in new state revenue to public schools via House Bill 1182: This morning, 20 of those…
In the face of six amendments targeting the Governor’s new K-12 funding formula, House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) deferred Senate Bill 131 from yesterday to this morning…
Senate Bill 159, the stealth voucher bill, died and was reborn today. This morning I laid out four good reasons that SB 159, which would give…
Uh oh—looks like we Brown County Democrats had better play catch-up! The Brown County Republicans appear to be fielding a full slate for District 3…
House Appropriations has one bill on its agenda this morning. What a nice opportunity to focus their attention on killing a bad bill. At 9 a.m.…
House State Affairs has six bills on its agenda this morning. Incredibly, three of those bills say nothing. Senate Bills 124, 125, and 126 are…
It’s official: I have already won half of my District 3 Senate campaign by driving the current underperforming incumbent from his seat: After 10 years in…