Teachers and administrators came from all around South Dakota today to watch the House of Representatives debate House Bill 1182, the Governor’s inferior (but preferable to…
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The South Dakota Budget and Policy Institute surges into the teacher-pay-raise debate with a great analysis of the competing sales tax proposals. Both proposals, Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard’s…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck has a really good idea, one that the Legislature needs to apply to itself right now. Our favorite Watertown Republican is pushing House Bill…
The Democratic caucus in Pierre has filed its teacher-pay tax plan. Senate Bill 151 exempts food from sales tax, then raises the rest of the sales and use…
KSOO’s Independent radio host Rick Knobe continues to urge the Legislature to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay. He said last November that he wasn’t terribly impressed with the…
Update 2016.02.12 12:39 CST: Following strong reader interest and critique, I have built on the following calculations to include the small-school adjustment and English language learning factors in…
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…
The Department of Labor and Regulation annually reports on job placement outcomes for our postsecondary graduates. The 2015 report tells us how many graduates from Fiscal Years…
Holy cow! Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) beats Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Democrats to the punch and puts the first real teacher pay bill of the…
The Democratic plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay is superior to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan for three main reasons: The Democratic plan raises teacher pay…