South Dakota legislators were able to scrape together some extra dollars in the final hours of the session this year to come up with a three tenths of a percent raise for teachers and schools. To that point, it looked like there would be no increase.
Representative Mike Stevens of Yankton says the sales tax runs everything….

Stevens says it took some tough negotiating at the end to find any extra dollars…..

Stevens says they were all hoping for a better result…..

Legislators return to Pierre on Monday for the final day of the 2017 session.