Post by Logan on Feb 11, 2016 3:51:49 GMT -6
Education advocates plan to use an extra handful of days to urge lawmakers to support Gov. Dennis Daugaard's proposed half-cent sales tax hike for increasing teacher pay, after House legislators postponed a vote Wednesday on the bill.
The chamber in Pierre briefly took up the sales tax measure before a group of legislators used a procedural move to delay further consideration until next week. Spectators had packed the House chamber's upper gallery to watch the debate.
Momentum has been building to raise South Dakota's teacher pay, which a state task force studying education funding said is the lowest of the 50 states and District of Columbia.
Education organization representatives, members of the Daugaard administration and teachers sporting buttons decrying South Dakota's standing among other states spoke with lawmakers much of the day before the planned vote.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-house-delays-vote-on-teacher-pay-sales-tax-hike/article_82523010-d029-11e5-9865-1b4f2200eb91.html
The chamber in Pierre briefly took up the sales tax measure before a group of legislators used a procedural move to delay further consideration until next week. Spectators had packed the House chamber's upper gallery to watch the debate.
Momentum has been building to raise South Dakota's teacher pay, which a state task force studying education funding said is the lowest of the 50 states and District of Columbia.
Education organization representatives, members of the Daugaard administration and teachers sporting buttons decrying South Dakota's standing among other states spoke with lawmakers much of the day before the planned vote.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-house-delays-vote-on-teacher-pay-sales-tax-hike/article_82523010-d029-11e5-9865-1b4f2200eb91.html