The South Dakota Board of Regents requested a four percent increase in their system funding for next year, or about nine million dollars more than last year.
Governor Dennis Daugaard included about a four-million-dollar hike in his budget proposal.
Regents President Keven Schieffer says that is the first take on the 2020 budget…

Schieffer says they are focused on one new priority next year….

Schieffer says the scholarship program would match private with public dollars…..

Schieffer says they have pushed student tuition and cut expenses about as far as they can.