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Go to the National Access Network website and review the educational funding issues for South Dakota. Try to find information about the affect of school choice options on educational funding. From DQ 1, describe how having school choice options affects school funding. Do you feel that there is a positive effect or a negative effect? What were some opposing viewpoints of your classmates? What was their rationale behind their views? Your response should be 200 to 300 words in length.
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What have you found in your research?
This is the first page of what I found at National Access Network website.
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SOUTH DAKOTA
Char Gatje, Director of Research
South Dakota Education Association
I. GENERAL BACKGROUND
State
The current state aid formula was passed by the 1995 legislature and is based on a
per student basis instead of the expenditure-driven formula previously in place.
The formula is based upon an adjusted average daily membership (ADM) figure
for each school district.
Low teacher salaries continue to be a major point of discussion in South Dakota.
For the 1998–99 school year, the average salary of the 8,892 teachers was
$28,386.
Local
South Dakota contains 176 K–12 school districts, with an average daily
membership (ADM) of 129,709 students. Not including capital outlay, debt
service or enterprise funds, total expenditures of the 176 school districts are
$662.4 million. Of that amount, 62.11% of the expenditures are instructional. On
the revenue side, 41.76% of the districts’ revenue comes from the property tax,
9.96% from federal sources, 6.89% from other local sources, and 41.39% from
state sources.
There is considerable diversity in the size of school districts in South Dakota.
The largest two school districts in the state have an ADM of 18,361 and 13,690,
with general fund expenditures of $77.5 million and $58.9 million, respectively.
The largest 15 school districts in the state account for 51% of the ADM, with the
remaining 161 school districts accounting for 49% of the ADM.
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SOUTH DAKOTA
Char Gatje, Director of Research
South Dakota Education Association
I. GENERAL BACKGROUND
State
The current state aid formula was passed by the 1995 legislature and is based on a
per student basis instead of the expenditure-driven formula previously in place.
The formula is based upon an adjusted average daily membership (ADM) figure
for each school district.
Low teacher salaries continue to be a major point of discussion in South Dakota.
For the 1998–99 school year, the average salary of the 8,892 teachers was
$28,386.
Local
South Dakota contains 176 K–12 school districts, with an average daily
membership (ADM) of 129,709 students. Not including capital outlay, debt
service or enterprise funds, total expenditures of the 176 school districts are
$662.4 million. Of that amount, 62.11% of the expenditures are instructional. On
the revenue side, 41.76% of the districts’ revenue comes from the property tax,
9.96% from federal sources, 6.89% from other local sources, and 41.39% from
state sources.
There is considerable diversity in the size of school districts in South Dakota.
The largest two school districts in the state have an ADM of 18,361 and 13,690,
with general fund expenditures of $77.5 million and $58.9 million, respectively.
The largest 15 school districts in the state account for 51% of the ADM, with the
remaining 161 school districts accounting for 49% of the ADM.
Read, read, read, and then let us know what you think.
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