SIOUX FALLLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A chair on the Governor’s education panel, State Senator Deb Soholt of Sioux Falls, says information sources aren’t matching up.
Soholt says there’s varying data on pay for teachers and administrators, what the state has in reserves, the amount of money allocated for students and the teacher pipeline.
Soholt says job one will be to make sure everyone on the panel agrees to where the state of education truly is in South Dakota
Soholt says the task force will reevaluate the school funding formula that’s been in place for twenty years.
Meanwhile...Soholt says some House members last session felt the issue of child sexual abuse should go to the summer study hopper.
Soholt says that doesn’t guarantee continuing work by Jolene’s Law Task Force.
Governor Daugaard says the panel could be funded by a grant from the Department of Health.