A legislative attempt to make all 148 public K-12 school districts and 706 public K-12 school buildings in South Dakota have a school sentinel or school resource officer failed Thursday.
Inflation, turnover, minimal increases in state aid to education, and pay raises absorbed by non-teaching staff: Those are the reasons for South Dakota’s lagging teacher pay, according to education experts and school officials. The Legislature expected to infuse over $60 million into public K-12 education in the first year following 2016’s historic half-percent state sales […]
Inflation, turnover, minimal increases in state aid to education, and pay raises absorbed by non-teaching staff: Those are the reasons for South Dakota’s lagging teacher pay, according to education experts