3.8% School Funding Increase Killed In South Dakota House

The House Appropriations Committee votes 5-4 to kill a bill that would have increased state aid to schools by three-point-eight percent. The Governor is proposing a three-percent hike.  The larger increase was recommended by the Interim Education Funding Formula Study Committee. Representative Jacqueline Sly of Rapid City presented the proposal. She says schools have not recovered from the 2010 freeze and 2011 cuts…

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Jim Terwilliger of the Bureau of Finance and management spoke against the bill…

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Representative Spence Hawley of Brookings asked the committee to keep the measure alive…

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The plan would have put per student spending back where it was before budget cuts were made in 2011.  It would have cost the state five-point-three million dollars more than the Governor’s plan.