This last weekend, Governor Larry Rhoden and Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen were in the news explaining how the South Dakota Legislature can ignore the commitments they made to fund education by ignoring the laws they had passed earlier to help education funding keep pace with inflation:
(Governor Larry Rhoden said) “The same people that made the laws can suspend them, if you will,” he said. “And there’s times that it’s been necessary to do so.”
Lawmakers created the mandatory increase law in 1995, with an effective date in 1997. It required annual increases of 3% or inflation, whichever is less — an amount described as the “index factor.”
and..
Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen said the index factor now serves more as a “guideline or a goal.”
“One Legislature can’t bind a future Legislature by statute,” Venhuizen said.
and..
(Former Senator Lee Schoenbeck said) “Now these people in the Legislature will have to decide if they have the courage to pay their bills.”
What are your thoughts on the legislature failing to provide the inflationary increase they themselves had written into law? It’s not as if the cost of everything hasn’t increased during the same period of time they’ve failed to keep pace with the funding.
What a TRAGIC attitude!
Bubba duznt want to waist money on educasion.
And this is what we get when elk doesn’t have his 2nd grade neighbor proofread his post before hitting the “Post Comment” button.
Toby: Rules for thee, not for me
Tony: Rules for thee, not for me
Larry: Ditto
This is not a winning strategy by the governor.
Yes, no money for education. How can we possibly trust teachers to teach the right things. Besides any money for education really ought to be used for AI development, and we really must give tax breaks (50 years worth) to these data centers.
I wonder what other laws clearly defining a specific outcome can be measured only as “guidelines” under the current administrations lack of logic.
the solution is to consolidate the school districts, and make the Superintendent of Schools a county job. You only need one to talk to the County School Board..
Tiny school districts each with their own EdD Superintendent, plus a principal, and in some cases a vice-principal, are just throwing money away. Small towns with populations that don’t know how to make babies are the problem.
I recall V.J. Smith complaining about people opposed to consolidation based on a football game that was played in 1978.
This nonsense has to stop. You can buy a new school bus for less than one year’s compensation for a school superintendent.
Cut the fat cat administrators, give the seven indisputable layers of teachers raises based on their merit. Combine schools. Counties and towns too.
Boy,
This is great news.
I guess Recreational Cannabis is legal
after all.
Laws evidently don’t mean squat to these goofballs.
So….Fire up a lefty !!!
It’s now schedule 3 so it’s no more dangerous than Tylenol.
And that’s from the Head Gassbag himself.
So…Get with the program MAGA your daddy
said it’s safe now.
School administrations can certainly be consolidated, saving a lot of money and the schools could remain in the small towns.
The schools are getting pretty spread out so busing is not practical.
I am going to use this “goal” or “guideline” analogy the next time I am asked to pay sales tax for an item. If my budget doesn’t allow it at the time I will ask to have the sales tax on the purchase lowered/removed. We will see how it goes.
The code is more like a bunch of suggestions.
Good to know where he stands on dumbing down our state. Our generous donation will be in the mail today to DUSTY!!