While school districts in South Dakota have been able to raise the average pay for their teachers on staff, those increases may be helping attract more beginning teachers.
Mary McCorkle, President of the South Dakota Education Association, says she has been meeting with education students looking for their first jobs……
McCorkle says the numbers of applicants for teaching positions seems to be rising…….
McCorkle says there is an increasing need now for special education teachers……
The 2016 legislature increased the sales tax a half cent to give school districts the money they needed to raise teacher pay to an average of about forty-eight thousand dollars a year.
