The 2015 session of the South Dakota Legislature opens today with ceremonies and speeches, and then will jump into the issues.

Among those, as usual, education funding.

Wade Pogany is Executive Director of the Associated School Boards. He says they will be in front of lawmakers, looking for help on many fronts…

 

Governor Dennis Daugaard has said on many occasions that local school boards decide what to pay teachers not the state. Pogany says while that is true, local districts are limited by the amount of state aid they receive…

 

The Associated School Boards, along with the school administrators group had floated an idea of a temporary one cent sales tax increase in the summer months dedicated to teacher pay. Pogany says that is just one idea out there…

 

Pogany spoke to the Yankton School Board.