School districts across the state are waiting to see what if any state aid the legislature can come up with this year. Governor Kristi Noem proposed no increase in general state aid this year due to flat state revenues. Those numbers have improved some since her budget speech.
Yankton School Superintendent Wayne Kindle says it is very difficult to budget year to year without a stable flow of state aid….

Kindle says schools continue to remind legislators of the law that calls for state aid increases each year of three percent or the rate of inflation…

Legislators are pointing at the so called “big three” to fund, schools, Medicaid providers and state employees. Kindle says those should not be pitted against each other…

The Appropriations Committees are hearing agency and department budgets and will set the overall spending plan at the end of the session in March.