The Legislative Planning Committee took quite a bit of time at their meeting Monday to talk about benchmarks and performance measures for higher education, and in state government in general. Representative Jacqueline Sly of Rapid City says there should be cost comparisons available for similar programs at different state universities…
Sly says that information could also be valuable for students as they choose their courses…
Senator Larry Tideman of Brookings has been working on performance measures for state government overall. He says the legislature used to have a sunset review process of state agencies…
Tideman says legislators should look at what other states are doing, then come up with some new performance standards…
Committee members decided to take up the proposals at their next meeting.