Governor Kristi Noem can’t even come up with creative excuses for failing to uphold the state’s promise to use the extra half-penny sales to raise…
Tag: teacher pay
In proposing zero increase in the target teacher salary that determines K-12 funding, Governor Kristi Noem is ignoring state law. The Governor is proposing $8.9…
South Dakota still isn’t meeting its target teacher salary. In 2016, we raised our state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% with the goal of…
Remember all the effort we made just three years ago to rouse the Legislature from two generations of neglect of public education, increase sales tax…
From the fervid imagination of Rep. Tim Goodwin—phantom teachers! Senator Lance Russell said it best when he identified the school aid formula as a “reverse…
Among the bills on the Senate’s Crossover Day agenda is Senate Bill 179, which sets the maximum tax levies for school boards and the target…
The Republican leadership has put Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) in charge of the House Education Committee. What could go wrong there? Sure, it’s nice that…
Bob Mercer notes that the South Dakota Teacher Compensation Review Board, the offspring of the 2015 Blue Ribbon Teacher Pay panel, approved the final draft…
While average salaries for K-12 teachers and university professors in South Dakota sit at an embarrassing 48th in the nation, our vo-tech instructors manage to…
Despite our big 2016 sales tax increase, South Dakota’s K-12 teacher pay remains a disappointing 48th in the nation. Our elementary and high school teachers…