About three dozen South Dakota school districts could face penalties because they missed a formula to pay their teachers.
A bill that raised the state sales tax a half cent last year also stipulated that school districts had to raise their average teacher pay to forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Representative Mike Stevens of Yankton says those districts were aware of the rules….

Stevens says districts will have a chance to explain the differences…..

Stevens says the funding formula was not designed to target smaller districts……

Many of the districts missed the salary targets by a tenth of a percent.