So the money is there after all: Governor Kristi Noem caved yesterday and said the Legislature can spend $3.5 million to legalize industrial hemp and…
Tag: teacher pay
Rosier budget projections have apparently fizzled; Majority Leader Lee Qualm is saying we may be back to stiffing teachers and state employees: Republicans who control…
Governor Noem delivers her State of the State Address Tuesday… but it’s largely redundant. Didn’t she already spend $1.4 million to hire Minnesotans to tell…
South Dakota’s general fund revenues continue to show more fiscal health than Governor Kristi Noem’s stingy and visionless budget proposal would lead us to believe.…
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…
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…