A summer study committee of the South Dakota legislature recommended that a task force study special education funding.

A four-million-dollar state fund set up to help schools with those costs has been tapped out.

Governor Dennis Daugaard says some school may have treated that fund like a piggy bank…

Special education is funded by a separate property tax levy in each school district. Daugaard says school boards may have to do a better job of managing those funds…..

Daugaard says the school aid formula was a mystery to him when he was first elected to the legislature….

The study committee also heard about the increasing numbers of students needing special education services.