With Huron High School Government students in attendance, education garnered most of the spotlight Saturday morning during the second Coffee with the Legislators Forum at the Huron Municipal Building. Republican Representative Jim White told the standing room only crowd that much of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s educations proposals stem from South Dakota’s decision to abandon the federal No Child Left Behind laws…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/feb4coffee1.mp3|titles=feb4coffee1]Senator Tom Hanson says Senate Bill 144 has a decent chance of passing to help reset some elements of school funding…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/feb4coffee2.mp3|titles=feb4coffee2]White feels the only way additional funding could be allocated to schools is with a tax….
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/feb4coffee3.mp3|titles=feb4coffee3]Representative Peggy Gibson says a bill to change the way Rural Electric Cooperatives are assessed should have little impact on school funding…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/feb4coffee4.mp3|titles=feb4coffee4]Both White and Gibson expressed disappointment at the beginning of the hour long forum over a bill banning texting while driving being killed by the Legislature.