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Establish parameters for the reimbursement of school districts that provide free or reduced-price meals to students.
Amend provisions pertaining to the School Finance Accountability Board, and the process by which a recommendation of the board is approved.
Require the reporting of funding given by certain persons and governments to institutions under the control of the Board of Regents and the South Dakota Board of Technical Education.
Modify the amount required to be set aside for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing special education programs.
Permit the board of a school district to require that certain students receive instruction in alternative settings.
Permit technical college employees to join the state health plan.
Revise the time within which a recount for a school board election must be completed.
Restrict the use of a cell phone by a student during the school day.
Amend permissible uses of a school district's capital outlay fund.
Amend provisions pertaining to the required criminal background investigation of certain school employees.
Create the building opportunity through out-of-school time program and the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund, authorize a new fee, make an appropriation therefor, and transfer moneys to the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund.
Require an election to approve the issuance of certain capital outlay certificates, lease-purchase contracts, or installment purchase contracts.
Provide for the establishment of charter schools.
Amend the manner in which a school district determines the district's enrollment for the purpose of calculating state aid to general education.
Define nonpublic school.
Make an appropriation to the Department of Education for the provision of grants to sparse school districts.
Amend the state aid formula for general education and for special education.
Permit a school district to administer epinephrine using a nasal spray.
Amend provisions pertaining to the administration of an academic achievement assessment to students in grade eleven.
Update the reference to the Internal Revenue Code to reflect current federal law for the administration of higher education savings plans.
Increase thresholds for the value of and eligibility for the partners in education scholarship.
Amend the school funding formula to provide for the use of an average fall enrollment when determining local need.
Require an election for an excess tax levy of a school district.
Amend the programs reimbursing a teacher or school counselor for earning national board certification.
Reduce the state's contribution to a subsidized high school dual credit program.
Modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.
Allow a student to wear certain military decorations at a school graduation ceremony and to declare an emergency.
Modify the permissible dates for a school district bond election.
Require the acceptance of a cash payment for admission to a school-affiliated event.
Permit a school district to implement a new or revised section 504 plan, individualized family service plan, or individualized education program for a student who is the child of an active-duty member of the United States armed forces.
Revise provisions pertaining to the compulsory age for school attendance.
Permit merit pay as a component of teacher compensation.
Amend provisions pertaining to a school district's proposed opt out, capital outlay certificate, or other agreement.
Modify the individuals eligible to sign an affidavit of homelessness for purposes of obtaining a free copy of a birth certificate.
Modify the persons eligible to sign an affidavit for proof of homelessness for purposes of waiving the fee for a nondriver identification card.
Prohibit non-disclosure agreements in settlement cases involving the Associated School Boards of South Dakota Protective Trust Workers Compensation Pool.
Provide tuition for a student who is placed in a residential treatment center that provides educational programming.
Amend definitions pertaining to the school funding formula.
Require that all certified educators take a course in South Dakota Indian Studies.
Incorporate the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings in public school curriculum.
Provide school choice through an education tax credit.
Require the display and curricular inclusion of the Ten Commandments and other documents.
Establish a maximum school administrator salary.
Provide a process by which a parental concern may be submitted to and resolved by a public school.
Create a one-year career and technical education instructor educator permit.
Allow for the payment of goods or services by a school district between school board meetings in certain circumstances.
Make an appropriation for the establishment of a Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology and to declare an emergency.
Expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors.
Allow an appeal of a decision of the Department of Education regarding special education or related services by a civil action against the department.
Require the publication of measures taken to restrict the access of obscene materials by minors.
Create the Dr. Nicholas W. Drummond Center for Civic Engagement at Black Hills State University.
Revise the requirements pertaining to average teacher compensation and to establish a minimum teacher salary.
Make an appropriation for a grant to the Douglas school district for the construction costs of a new school.
Expand provisions regarding the protection of minors from certain exhibitions.
Authorize enrolled tribal members to attend certain institutions of higher education without payment of tuition and mandatory fees.
Transfer the Office of Indian Education to the Department of Education.
Update a reference to the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of higher education savings plans.
Revise the method by which completion of a required suicide awareness and prevention training is verified.
Remove provisions for establishing a uniform method for calculating high school credit received from completing a postsecondary course.
Permit the playing of an Honor Song at graduation ceremonies.
Establish the nonbeneficiary student scholarship program and make an appropriation therefor.
Prohibit school districts from using certain mascots and team names that are derogatory toward Native American peoples or culture.
Incorporate the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings in the social studies curriculum.
Standardize certain school safety practices.
Establish and modify provisions related to school safety.
Increase the dollar amount of South Dakota opportunity scholarships.
Authorize school boards to modify the length of terms for members to allow for holding joint elections.
Authorize a board of a school district to adopt policies regarding students who are registered sex offenders, and to declare an emergency.
Include school employees in certain assault provisions and provide a penalty therefor.
Provide an educational exception to consumption prohibitions for persons over eighteen years of age who are required to taste an alcoholic beverage as part of a course.
Expand eligibility for certain teachers who receive reduced tuition at Board of Regents institutions.
Make an appropriation to the Department of Education for grants to support career and technical education programs, and to declare an emergency.
Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Clarify the duties of truancy officers.
Establish a uniform method for calculating high school credit received from completing postsecondary courses.
Modify the limit of consecutive terms for members of the Board of Technical Education.
Prohibit the use of state resources in hosting lewd or lascivious content.
Provide free tuition at Board of Technical Education institutions for children or spouses of members of the South Dakota National Guard disabled or deceased in the line of duty.
Prohibit the issuance of a written certification to a pregnant woman or breastfeeding mother for purposes of medical cannabis use.
To recommend the Executive Board establish a task force to study a potential optional educational path.
Repeal the requirement for an annual report by the Board of Regents regarding intellectual diversity and the free exchange of ideas
Revise provisions pertaining to the South Dakota School for the Deaf.
Clarify information related to students that is not subject to survey, analysis, or evaluation without consent.
Establish provisions related to the review and selection of instructional materials in school districts.
Modify the compulsory age for school attendance.
Update a reference to the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of higher education savings plans.
Require schools to provide instruction on South Dakota's tribal history, culture, and government.
Permit the playing of an Honor Song at graduation ceremonies.
Authorize enrolled tribal members to attend certain institutions of higher education without payment of tuition and mandatory fees.
Establish the stronger families scholarship program for children in foster care, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Modify provisions regarding educator complaints.
Revise the eligibility of alternative instruction students for participation in school district activities.
Provide for the recall of school board members.
Make an appropriation for the purchase of cybersecurity upgrades by the Board of Regents and to declare an emergency.
Protect students and employees at institutions of higher education from divisive concepts.
Revise the general state aid formula to provide adjustment for alternative education students participating in interscholastic activities.
Clarify the certification process for teachers and school administrators.
Revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship.
Make an appropriation to the Board of Regents to upgrade an education lab and purchase resources at Black Hills State University and to declare an emergency.
Make an appropriation for multi-media lab equipment at Black Hills State University and to declare an emergency.
Require the Board of Regents to provide an annual presentation to the special committee.
Repeal certain reporting requirements to the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council.
Authorize the Board of Regents to acquire the incubator building located on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to contract for the design and renovation thereof, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Revise provisions regarding the Teacher Compensation Review Board.
Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design and construction of an addition to the wellness center at the University of South Dakota, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the demolition of Briscoe Hall and the existing Lincoln Hall, and the design and construction of the new Lincoln Hall, at Northern State University, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Make an appropriation to the Board of Technical Education to support the purchase of simulation equipment for a health sciences clinical simulation center on the campus of Southeast Technical College and to declare an emergency.
Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation, and construction of an addition for a health sciences center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Provide for the payment of signing bonuses to school district staff members.
Direct the Indian Education Advisory Council to make an annual report to the Governor and the State-Tribal Relations Committee.
Modify certain provisions related to elections for sparse school districts.
Revise the gross receipts tax on certain food.
Permit the wearing of a beaded graduation cap at a school honoring or graduation ceremony.
To protect elementary and secondary students from political indoctrination.
Provide for the creation and funding of Oceti Sakowin community-based schools.
Make an appropriation to the Board of Regents to renovate the science laboratories in the Churchill-Haines Building at the University of South Dakota.
Provide for the use of screening instruments in determining kindergarten readiness.
Prolong requirements for increasing teacher compensation.
Transfer funds to the South Dakota postsecondary scholarship grant fund for the South Dakota need-based grant program and to declare an emergency.
Increase the South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship award.
Make an appropriation to the Department of Education to provide grants to organizations that provide early education programs.
Revise certain provisions related to the partners in education tax credit program.
Provide for the establishment of education savings accounts.
Require school boards to consult with law enforcement on the design of new school facilities.
Require renovation estimates on certain school facilities before replacement.
Revise the membership of the Board of Education Standards to include the chairs of the Senate and House committees on education.
Prohibit preferential treatment in higher education employment practices.
Remove certain eligibility requirements for the partners in education tax credit program.
Revise certain provisions related to news media coverage of high school activities.
Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the construction of a Mineral Industry Building and the demolition of the old Mineral Industry Building on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Revise off-campus tuition rates at institutions governed by the Board of Regents.
Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the redesign and renovation of, and the design and construction of an addition to, the Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex on the campus of South Dakota State University, together with equipment and furnishings, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Revise the provisions of parental choice regarding compulsory school attendance and matters ancillary thereto.
Authorize certain children who are subject to a military relocation to be eligible for registration with a state-approved distance learning provider.
Establish resident tuition requirements for veterans and armed forces personnel and family members.
Opining that Tayamni should be recognized as the official constellation of this state.
Establish qualifications for members of the Board of Regents.
Authorize the transfer of wind energy tax revenue from a school district general fund.
Provide free tuition and fees to visually impaired residents for courses not subsidized by the state general fund.
Supporting the value of public higher education in South Dakota and encouraging continued efforts to ensure that higher education remains affordable for all South Dakotans.
Appropriate funds for the purchase of the former Ascent Innovation Center and to declare an emergency.
Prohibit the conduct of certain physical examinations or screenings on students in a school district without parental consent.
Grant authority to the secretary of education to waive accountability requirements in certain situations.
Revise certain state aid to education definitions for the 2021-2022 school year.
Delete or revise certain outdated language relating to education.
Provide for the creation and funding of Oceti Sakowin community-based schools.
Allow for the consideration of certain instruction to count towards the minimum number of hours required in a school term during a declared state of emergency.
Repeal the annual survey of schools regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction.
Include children with a hearing loss in the reporting criteria required for deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
Remove the requirement for a mandatory appraisal in exchanges of land between school districts.
Revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds.
Revise a provision regarding eligibility for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship.
Revise the purposes for which a school district's capital outlay fund may be used.
Establish the Jobs for South Dakota's Graduates program and the special donation fund.
Provide a transfer of funds for critical teaching needs scholarships and to declare an emergency.
Define dyslexia for the purposes of special education and related services.
Urging greater awareness and understanding of post-traumatic stress injury.
To encourage the Executive Board of the Legislature to create an interim legislative study to address the mental health of first responders.
Commending automotive enthusiasts in South Dakota and the Specialty Equipment Market Association for their contributions in preserving classic automobiles and urging the Governor to declare a South Dakota Collector Car Appreciation Day this year.
Revise certain provisions regarding the dates on which certain school district elections may be held.
Provide for the creation and funding of Oceti Sakowin community-based schools.
Establish the date of kindergarten enrollment eligibility.
Revise the authority of the Board of Education Standards to promulgate rules regarding certification.
Rename the postsecondary technical institutes as technical colleges.
Make an appropriation for the Literacy Intervention Program and to declare an emergency.
Require the Department of Education to establish certain programs for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Supporting students and other persons afflicted by epilepsy and raising awareness of epilepsy in South Dakota.
Revise certain provisions regarding school district fiduciary funds.
Revise provisions for taxes levied by the board of a school district for the capital outlay fund.
Revise certain provisions regarding the Board of Technical Education.
Require parental notification of self-injurious behavior expressed during counseling sessions.
To protect the teaching of certain scientific information.
Provide for certain privileged communications between social workers and students.
Revise certain provisions regarding licenses for speech-language pathology services.
Provide for the increase of higher education enrolled members of the nine federally recognized tribes in South Dakota at regental institutions.
Expand application of the tax credit for contributions to a scholarship granting organization.
Require the national motto of the United States to be displayed in public schools.
Add a legislator to the membership of the Extraordinary Cost Oversight Board, to establish the board in statute, and to repeal the administrative rules creating the board.
Create the Special Education Interim Legislative Committee.
Require students to take a civics test before graduating from high school.
Revise certain provisions regarding state tests.
Revise the timing of the recalculation of the allocations for the disability levels in the state aid to special education formula.
Require a survey to determine the adequacy of civics and history instruction in accredited schools.
Instructing South Dakota's congressional representatives to support an effort in Congress to terminate the U.S. Department of Education.
Improve civics education in South Dakota public schools.
Revise the course requirements for the opportunity scholarship.
Enhance education in South Dakota.
Establish certain provisions regarding the opportunity scholarship program.
Revise certain references to repealed or obsolete provisions regarding the Department of Education.
Provide for the administration of certain assessments in a paper format.
Require the secretary of public safety to provide recommendations to the Legislature on a statewide threat assessment plan.
Revise certain provisions relating to state assessments.
Declare void the transgender procedure adopted by the South Dakota High School Activities Association and to establish a determinant in identifying a student's sexual identity for the purpose of participation in high school athletics.
Revise certain provisions regarding capital outlay obligations.
Establish certain provisions regarding postsecondary tuition assistance programs.
Establish certain requirements for students enrolling in resident school districts or assigned schools after participating in open enrollment.
Prohibit certain government entities from restricting the wearing of tribal regalia during certain events.
Create provisions regarding the language development of deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Expand the partners in education tax credit program to include tribally controlled schools on a federally recognized Indian reservation.
Revise certain provisions regarding reorganization of certain school districts with low enrollment.
Repeal certain provisions providing for a pilot charter school for Native American students if the state had received a federal grant.
Revise the list of organizations that may approve and accredit a nonpublic school.
Revise certain provisions regarding the authorization to provide postsecondary education.
Revise certain provisions regarding the employment of the superintendent of the State School for the Deaf and the South Dakota School for the Blind and the Visually Impaired.
Establish certain provisions regarding the opportunity scholarship program.
Require school districts to adopt a policy limiting the use of restraint and seclusion.
Revise certain provisions regarding the partners in education tax credit program.
Authorize certain patriotic societies access to public schools.
Establish term limits for members of the Board of Education Standards.
Establish term limits for members of the Board of Regents.
Revise certain provisions regarding lease-purchase agreements for a local education agency.
Revise certain provisions regarding dual education credit.
Provide for the protection of free speech on the campuses of public institutions of higher education.
Revise certain education funding provisions.
Prohibit school lunch shaming.
Recognizing the need for and urging support for early childhood education in South Dakota.
Establish the Early Learning Advisory Council.
Calling for statewide recognition of the migration of many young people from our state and urging state and local officials to take steps to counter that action and attract new residents to our state.
Prohibit certain gender identity instruction in public schools.
Create the career and technical education consortium grant program and the career and technical education consortium fund.
Require each school board to provide certain information regarding school elections in the school board minutes.
Authorize an opt out of school board approved installment purchase contracts, lease purchase contracts, or capitol outlay certificates.
Prohibit aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States from attending any public postsecondary educational institution or from receiving certain educational financial assistance.
Revise certain provisions regarding the South Dakota Board of Technical Education.
Revise the membership of the Board of Education Standards to include the chairs of the Senate and House committees on education.
Exempt certain persons working in postsecondary technical institutes from collective bargaining provisions.
Clarify certain provisions regarding the process to be excused from public school attendance.
Revise certain provisions regarding the payment of tuition for members of the South Dakota National Guard and to declare an emergency.
Revise the list of organizations that may approve and accredit a nonpublic school.
Extend the date a school district is required to bring reserve funds down to a certain percentage.
Require each school district to adopt a policy to provide for students with specific learning disabilities.
Prohibit the expenditure of certain public school resources for political purposes and to provide a penalty therefor.
Establish the South Dakota Board of Technical Education and to revise certain provisions regarding career and technical education and postsecondary technical institutes.
Provide for the exemption of certain students from the requirement to take certain academic assessment tests.
Protect the teaching of certain scientific information.
Revise certain provisions regarding the participation of home school students in certain interscholastic activities.
Accommodate legislation relating to education in South Dakota.
Require the Department of Education to use a competitive bidding process when acquiring academic assessments.
Revise certain provisions regarding the education provided for children in certain residential treatment centers.
Revise the eligibility requirements for the opportunity scholarship program.
Establish an early childhood education pilot program and to make an appropriation therefor.
Establish the South Dakota Early Learning Advisory Council.
Revise and repeal certain provisions relating to education service agencies.
Revise certain provisions regarding high school equivalency testing.
Revise certain administrative and advisory functions of the State Library and the State Library Board.
Provide for the continuation of the paraprofessional tuition assistance scholarship program and to make an appropriation therefor.
Provide for the referral of a school board's decision to change the number of school days in a school week.
Establish a tuition reimbursement program for certain teachers who teach in rural school districts.
Establish consultation protocols between the Department of Education and tribal government officials.
Ensure student privacy in public school locker rooms, shower rooms, and changing facilities by restricting certain access.
Authorize the Governor to enter agreements with Indian tribes regarding the high school equivalency tests administered on Indian reservations.
Limit the amount of instructional time that may be spent administering statewide academic assessments.
Provide a tax credit to insurance companies that contribute to an organization providing educational scholarships to certain students.
Establish certain suicide awareness and prevention training requirements for certain school employees based on the Jason Flatt Act.
Continue a math pilot project at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Establish the Native American achievement schools grant program.
Create the paraprofessional tuition assistance scholarship program.
Make an appropriation to fund the Native American achievement schools grant program and paraprofessional tuition assistance scholarship program.
Provide for the exemption of certain schools from a tuition limitation applied to some bordering state school districts.
Revise the procedure to initiate a school district boundary change.
Allow a school district to operate an attendance center within another school district.
Provide for the inspection and review of a state-mandated academic achievement test taken by a student.
Revise the periods of time during which veterans may use tuition benefits at institutions under the control of the Board of Regents.
Eliminate the Council on Higher Education Policy Goals, Performance, and Accountability and to transfer its functions to the Legislative Planning Committee.
Restrict access to certain restrooms and locker rooms in public schools.
Require accredited schools to accept transfer credits for courses taken by students from other accredited schools during the summer and to declare an emergency.
Revise certain provisions regarding background investigations for prospective employees of the postsecondary technical institutes and to transfer certain funds regarding postsecondary technical credentialing.
Establish certain procedures regarding a transgender policy for the purposes of participation in high school activities and to declare void any present transgender policy of any association recognized under chapter 13-36.
Recognize dyslexia as a learning disability.
Require the development of school safety plans and to require the conduct of school safety drills in accredited schools.
Authorize the sale of certain surplus real estate and to provide for the deposit of the proceeds.
Revise certain provisions regarding alternative instruction achievement tests for children excused from school attendance.
Protect the teaching of certain scientific information.
Repeal the Midwestern Regional Higher Education Compact.
Provide for oversight of postsecondary technical institutes.
Repeal the South Dakota certified site and technology park programs.
Allow school districts to recruit teachers by providing certain financial incentives.
Revise the requirements for a petition for a minor boundary change.
Revise the minimum suspension requirements for students participating in extracurricular activities.
Place a term limit on the office of poet laureate.
Extend resident tuition eligibility to the spouses and children of active duty military personnel and of qualifying veterans.
Revise certain provisions regarding lease purchase agreement payments and to ratify certain lease purchase agreements with the Health and Educational Facilities Authority.
Require that the annual report of a school district contain certain information regarding school district fund balances.
Provide that certain information regarding postsecondary technical institutes be given to parents and guardians of students in middle schools and high schools.
Exclude the passing time between classes in the number of hours required in the school term for secondary students.
Clarify how a vacancy on a school board is filled.
Ensure local control over curriculum and methods of instruction.
Provide for a reduced minimum fall enrollment for certain school districts.
Repeal certain outdated and obsolete provisions regarding the Department of Education.
Require school districts to provide veterans a preference in employment.
Declare void the transgender policy of the South Dakota High School Activities Association and to establish a determinant in identifying a student's sexual identity for the purpose of participation in high school athletics.
Provide a tax credit to insurance companies that contribute to an organization providing educational scholarships to certain students and instructional supply grants to certain teachers and parents.
Create certain funding for education in South Dakota.
Limit certain rule making authority of the South Dakota High School Activities Association.
Provide for the approval of postsecondary courses for certain nonpublic school students and students receiving alternative instruction.
Repeal the foundation program fund and references thereto.
Clarify that the required notice requirements related to continuing contracts do not apply to employees of postsecondary technical institutes.
To direct the Department of Education to ensure South Dakota students are well-versed in civics and government.
Require the development of school safety plans and to require the conduct of lockdown drills in accredited schools.
Revise certain provisions regarding educational personnel certification and discipline.
Require the Department of Education to use a competitive bidding process when acquiring academic assessments.
Require all students leaving an accredited school for an alternative education program to wait one year before participating in interscholastic activities.
Encourage and protect the teaching of certain scientific information.
Revise certain provisions relating to the filing of student birth certificates.
Further protect the privacy of certain student information.
Revise certain provisions regarding student surveys.
Appropriate general funds and higher education facility funds to replace a portion of the other funds appropriated for the construction of swine teaching and research facilities at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.
Revise the required hours in a school term for certain grade levels.
Provide certain provisions regarding the requirements for postsecondary institutions to participate in a multistate state authorization reciprocity agreement for distance education activities.
Revise certain provisions relating to dual education credit.
Revise certain provisions regarding the open enrollment application review process of siblings of open enrolled students.
Require that the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States be recited at the start of each school day in every public school classroom.
Change the procedure for a minor boundary change.
Establish the Jolene's Law Task Force to study the impact of sexual abuse of children in this state and to make recommendations to the Legislature on policies to effectively address the issue.
Revise the minimum suspension requirements for students participating in extracurricular activities.
Revoke professional or trade licensure obtained through false degrees.
Allow schools to maintain a stock and to administer epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases.
Provide for the confidentiality of certain evaluation data.
Identify criteria to deny a minor boundary change.
Expressing support for the people of the Red Shirt community on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Allow for the requirement of a certification of health from an employee of a school.
Revise the persons authorized to countersign school board payments.
Revise certain requirements regarding the Richard Hagen-Minerva Harvey memorial scholarship program.
Provide for public notice of certain hearings conducted by the Board of Education, and to require that the hearings be conducted at least sixty days apart.
Revise the eligibility requirements for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship to include certain students who reside in bordering states.
Revise certain provisions related to the definition of and the diagnosing of autism and to revise the definition of a level five disability for purposes of state aid for special education funding.
Increase the opportunity scholarship award for science, technology, engineering, and math students.
Expressing concern relating to the Common Core State Standards.
Revise the per student allocation in the state aid to general education formula.
Require the Department of Education to report to the legislative education standing committees prior to implementing a curriculum change.
Supplant the Common Core State Standards.
Revise certain provisions regarding children placed in residential treatment centers or intensive residential treatment centers.
Include the definition of the term, qualified student applicant, in the need-based grant fund.
Provide for admission to postsecondary institutions regardless of the age of the student.
Provide that a truancy complaint is grounds to refuse a certificate for excuse from school attendance.
Provide certain provisions relating to the executive branch internship program.
Prohibit schools from preventing the instruction of intelligent design.
Ensure that a teacher may provide instruction in the area of personhood before birth.
Establish a comprehensive evaluation of the common core state standards and to make an appropriation therefor.
Allow certain opportunity scholarship recipients who graduate early to use the remainder of their scholarship award for graduate studies.
Establish a classroom innovation grant program and to make an appropriation therefor.
Create the critical teaching needs scholarship program, to make an appropriation to the education enhancement trust fund to provide for the annual funding of the scholarships, and to declare an emergency.
Extend the sunset date for certain expenditures from a school district's capital outlay fund.
Provide for the funding of educational programs for children in residential treatment centers, intensive residential treatment centers, or licensed group care centers.
Reinstate certain provisions repealed in the Eighty-seventh Legislative Session regarding the accounting for federal impact aid.
Revise certain reversion provisions relating to funding in the Governor's Office of Economic Development for the purpose of enhancing military value of Ellsworth Air Force Base, and to declare an emergency.
Correct the name of a postsecondary institution authorized to provide educational programs in South Dakota, and to revise the requirements for an institution seeking such authorization.
Establish the public purpose and goals of postsecondary education, to provide for the funding of higher education, and to create the Council on Higher Education Policy Goals, Performance, and Accountability.
Require the reporting of the outcomes of certain licensure and certification examinations.
Require the Department of Labor and Regulation to determine certain job placement outcomes for graduates of all public postsecondary education institutions in the state.
Provide for expenditures for early learning services from the special education fund, and to revise certain provisions regarding state aid to special education.
Ensure freedom of media coverage of high school activities.
Revise the state aid to general education formula by including an adjustment for students with limited English proficiency.
Exempt certain school districts from the requirement to reorganize due to low enrollment.
Repeal certain provisions regarding the automated library system fund.
Make an appropriation to enhance education by revising the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2013.
Require the Board of Education to obtain legislative approval before adopting any further Common Core standards, and to repeal a provision requiring the board to conduct certain public hearings.
Provide a reduced amount of state aid to education funding to certain school districts with a fall enrollment of less than one hundred.
Allow certain students to participate in the opportunity scholarship program under certain circumstances.
Equalize certain levies for the general fund of school districts.
Provide for certain methods of disbursement for school district flexible spending accounts.
Revise certain provisions regarding the students eligible for resident tuition benefits at universities controlled by the Board of Regents.
Provide for the creation of a pilot program for public charter schools.
Allow a school district to opt out of the continuing contract requirements for teachers.
Impact education in South Dakota.
Require certain opportunity scholarship recipients to reside in South Dakota for five years following graduation from postsecondary education.
Deposit money in the permanent school fund based on certain acres of school and public lands open to public hunting.
Establish a deadline within each semester after which no student may transfer to a school district other than the resident school district through the enrollment options program.
Provide incentives to teach in critical need areas, to provide for rewards for the best teachers and those teaching in math and science subject areas, to revise certain provisions regarding evaluation of teachers, to create a system for evaluating principals, to distinguish between tenured and nontenured teachers, to revise certain provisions regarding the employment of teachers, and to repeal provisions regarding the teacher compensation assistance program.
Establish the Teach for America grant program within the Department of Education.
Require the disclosure of certain public employee contracts.
Require the school board of each school district to adopt a policy prohibiting bullying.
Provide for the creation of a new state accountability system for public elementary and secondary schools.
Require the Board of Education to conduct public hearings before adopting certain standards.
Authorize the collection of fees for certain educational programming and services, and to declare an emergency.
Update the definition of the nonsectarian textbooks that are loaned to certain students to include digital materials.
Provide for authorization to offer postsecondary education services in South Dakota.
Provide for the establishment of a scholarship program for postsecondary technical institute students and to make an appropriation therefor.
Revise certain provisions related to the calculation of state aid to special education.
Revise certain provisions regarding the distribution of state publications.
Repeal certain outdated and obsolete statutes regarding the Department of Education.
Revise the state aid to education formula and to make an appropriation.
Permit a school district, at the discretion of the school district, to pay the fees charged for any criminal background investigation that is required by law for a prospective employee.
Remove the individual liability of a school board member who authorizes the making of a void contract, check or registered warrant.
Revise certain provisions regarding the excuse from attendance of children receiving alternative instruction.
Revise certain outdated and obsolete provisions regarding the Department of Education.
Revise certain provisions regarding educational data reporting.
Revise the calculation of the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula, and to provide for the distribution of certain funds to school districts.
Provide for a pilot program initiating two mathematics and science academies and to make an appropriation therefor.
Revise certain provisions related to the distribution of funds to sparse school districts.
Establish a funding formula for institutions under the control of the Board of Regents.
Encourage school districts to adopt a bullying policy and to establish a model bullying policy.
Require public school students in grade eleven to take certain assessments.
Require undergraduate students to pay the self-support rate of tuition for certain credit hours in excess of the credit hours required for the student's baccalaureate degree program.
Revise certain provisions relating to public schools to allow school districts to operate more economically.
Revise the criteria used to exempt certain school districts from the requirement to reorganize.
Increase the bonding limit for the four technical institutes.
Create the Board of Regents performance improvement fund and make an appropriation therefor.
Revise certain provisions related to school district fund balances and to declare an emergency.
Revise certain provisions concerning state aid to education, to revise and provide for the adjustment of the per student allocation for the state aid to general education formula, and to revise certain property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.
Establish policies for youth athletes with concussions resulting from participation in youth athletic activities.
Revise certain provisions related to distribution of funds to sparse school districts.
Allow nonpublic schools accredited by certain accrediting agencies other than the Department of Education to become members of the South Dakota High School Activities Association.
Require school boards to approve pick-up locations for any open enrolled students who are transported in their resident school districts by receiving school districts.
Establish the jump start scholarship program.
Extend for two years the period of time in which school districts may expend capital outlay funds for certain transportation, insurance, energy, and utility costs.
Revise certain provisions related to school district unreserved fund balances.
Prohibit school districts from employing school counselors who are not certified.
Revise certain provisions relating to the excusal of a child from school.
Repeal the requirement for a school district with an enrollment of one hundred or fewer students to reorganize.
Provide for the establishment of veterans resource centers at certain state colleges and universities.
Prohibit the Board of Education from adopting certain standards for the subject of history.
Modify the date on which the annual financial reports of school districts are considered past due.
Stabilize the funding of the state aid to education formula for two years by appropriating money from the education enhancement trust fund and borrowing money from certain school districts, to create the education stabilization fund, and to prohibit school districts from imposing an excess tax levy for two years.
Enhance education for students in certain residential treatment facilities.
Revise certain requirements relating to participation by tribal schools in the federal school lunch program.
Reduce by ten percent the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula, and to appropriate the money saved by the state as a result of the reduction to fund the education service agencies.
Revise how certain kindergarten students are counted for the purpose of state aid to education funding, to establish in statute the minimum number of hours required in a school term for grades one through three, and to provide for the redistribution of certain funds appropriated for state aid to education.
Require school districts and regental institutions to adopt a policy prohibiting hazing.
Provide funding for education by temporarily increasing the state sales and use tax.
Repeal certain provisions regarding the reduction in state aid to education based upon the school district's general fund balance.
Provide tuition benefits to certain National Guard members attending tribal colleges.
Revise the calculation of the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula, and to provide for the redistribution of certain funds appropriated for state aid to education.
Extend for three years the period of time in which school districts may expend capital outlay funds for certain transportation, insurance, energy, and utility costs, to include group health insurance costs among those costs, and to increase the percentage of capital outlay funds which may be expended for those costs.
Require each school district to develop a policy to prohibit bullying that meets certain requirements.
Repeal the reduction in state aid to general education funding for any school district that receives proceeds from the Commission on Gaming.
Revise the definition of fall enrollment in the state aid to education formula and to eliminate the one-time payments for school districts with increasing enrollments.
Allow certain students to participate in the opportunity scholarship program under certain circumstances.
Require that determinations in both adult and juvenile court proceedings relative to a controlled substance violation of a high school student participating in extracurricular activities be reported to the South Dakota High School Activities Association and to the school administrator.
Provide a statutory reference for the code of ethics for certified teachers and administrators.
Require the Department of Education to promote certain programs for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Adopt the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.
Revise the per student allocation in the state aid to general education formula, and to revise certain allocations for disabilities in the state aid to special education formula.
Eliminate the consolidation incentives for any school districts that consolidate after July 1, 2010.
Exclude students served in residential treatment facilities from the determination of the small school adjustment in the state aid to general education formula.
Revise certain qualifications for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship program.
Provide for the establishment of a pilot charter school in South Dakota if the Department of Education receives a federal grant to fund it.
Establish the per student allocation for FY 2011, and to revise the index factor in the state aid to education formula.
Establish standards for teaching, to require teacher evaluations, and to provide for the development of a model evaluation instrument.
Establish the South Dakota Early Learning Council, and to establish community planning processes and eligibility criteria for entities seeking state funding to provide voluntary prekindergarten programs to children from low-income families.
Revise the payment schedule for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship program.
Revise the calculation of the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula for certain students who participate in open enrollment.
Restrict the use of minor adjustments to school district boundaries and to revise the application process for minor boundary changes.
Provide for the early reinstatement of a student expelled from school under certain circumstances.
Require the Department of Education to develop a framework for entrepreneurship education.
Revise the high school course requirements and the requirements necessary to maintain eligibility for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship program.
Eliminate the two-year delay of certain rule changes that increase teacher certification fees.
Revise the definition of general fund base percentage in the calculation of state aid to education.
Authorize the deposit of federal special education funds into the capital outlay fund for the purchase of equipment for the purpose of special education and to declare an emergency.
Revise certain provisions concerning the hiring by school districts of persons convicted of felony drug distribution.
Revise provisions related to school district tuition for children placed in certain state institutions.
Repeal the requirement for school districts to have certain teaching certificates on file.
Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota relating to school districts expending public funds to support certain lawsuits against the State of South Dakota.
Revise certain requirements regarding make up time for school districts.
Revise certain statutes to reflect the current organizational structure of the Department of Education.
Authorize the transfer of certain special education funds to other funds under certain conditions and to declare an emergency.
Repeal certain provisions related to tuition for students transferring from a resident district that does not receive state aid to education and to repeal certain provisions related to state aid to education for students transferring to a nonresident school district that does not receive state aid to education.
Require the Board of Regents to prepare a plan for the establishment of a community college system in South Dakota.
Allow a nonpublic school that is not accredited by the state to be a member of the South Dakota High School Activities Association.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to revise the authority of the Board of Regents.