The South Dakota Legislative Planning Committee will meet Monday with school Capital Outlay Funds as one agenda item. Senator Billie Sutton of Burke serves on the committee and says Capital Outlay spending is important, but says more action should be taken to solve the overall funding struggle….
Capitol Outlay funds are a small portion of education budgets. Sutton says that about 80% of the budgets go towards teacher salaries…
Sutton says the next step is to keep talking about the issue and working effectively towards finding more revenues to pay for schools.