Title 13, EDUCATION

The Department of Education shall determine on December first, or as soon thereafter as practicable, of each school fiscal year the amount of state aid to education funds to which each school district within the state is eligible. The department shall require from any county or s…

The Department of Education shall apportion the state aid to education funds to each eligible school district and shall prepare a list of apportionments to be posted publicly in electronic format. The state auditor shall issue the warrant to each school district when the apportio…

The county general school fund to be apportioned pursuant to § 13-13-5 shall consist of the net proceeds of all fines for violation of state laws and any tax so designated in Title 10. Source: SDC 1939, § 15.1603; SL 1975, ch 128 , § 80.

If an error in payment of general support or equalization support to a school district has been made, the error shall be corrected by adding to or subtracting the amount of the error from the subsequent months' payments to be made to the school district affected. Source: SDC Supp…

The county treasurer shall on or before the fifth day of January and July furnish the county auditor with a statement of all money in the county treasury belonging to the county general school fund and shall pay the money, upon the order of the auditor, to the public school distr…

The county treasurer shall also pay at such times as are required by law to the business manager of each school district all of the money collected for such school district and shall take duplicate receipts for the money paid. He shall send one of the receipts to the business man…

If local effort increases on a statewide aggregate basis by a greater percentage than local need on a statewide aggregate basis from any one year to the next, for the following year each of the levies specified in subdivision 13-13-10.1 (13) shall be reduced proportionally so tha…

It is the policy of the Legislature that the appropriation for state aid to education increase on an annual basis by the percentage increase in local need on an aggregate statewide basis so that the relative proportion of local need paid by local effort and state aid shall remain…

In 2028 and each year thereafter, any adjustments in the levies specified in § 10-12-42 made pursuant to §§ 13-13-71 and 13-13-72 shall be based on maintaining the relationship between statewide local effort as a percentage of statewide local need in the fiscal year succeeding th…

No later than July 1, 2016, a school district shall notify the secretary of education in writing as to whether the school district's state aid is to be calculated using the alternative local need calculation. If a school district chooses the alternative local need calculation, th…

The Department of Revenue shall exclude the real property valuation of manufactured homes, considered as real estate pursuant to § 10-4-2.4 , and manufactured homes, converted to real estate after July 1, 1999, when computing local effort pursuant to §§ 13-13-10.1 and 13-37-35.1 …

If a school district's lowest general fund monthly cash balance exceeds the district's allowable general fund cash balance, the Department of Education shall reduce a school district's state aid for general education, as calculated pursuant to § 13-13-73 , by an amount equal to t…

The Department of Education shall calculate the average teacher salary for each school district, based on data collected pursuant to §§ 13-3-51 and 13-8-47 . Beginning with fiscal year 2025 and every fiscal year thereafter, each school district must increase its average teacher c…

It is the intent of the Legislature that any money appropriated for teacher compensation using the education funding plan included in SL 2016, ch 83 be used to directly improve teacher recruiting and retention and that the school districts advance this goal by increasing starting…

Beginning July 1, 2026, each school district must pay each full-time equivalent teacher a salary at least equal to the state minimum salary. For the purposes of this section, the term "state minimum salary" is forty-five thousand dollars for fiscal year 2025. For fiscal year 2026…

The Department of Education must decrease state aid to general education funding to the school district in the following fiscal year by five hundred dollars for each full-time equivalent teacher employed in the school district if: (1) The school district does not increase the sch…

Except as provided in §§ 13-19-29 and 13-13-39 , payment from funds provided in aid of the public schools in any school fiscal year shall be made in twelve monthly installments on or about the thirtieth of each month. For the period July first to December thirty-first, inclusive,…

Terms used in § 13-13-79 mean: (1) "Sparse school district," a school district that meets each of the following criteria: (a) Has a fall enrollment per square mile of 0.50 or less; (b) Has a fall enrollment of five hundred or less; (c) Has an area of four hundred square miles or …

At the same time that state aid is distributed to school districts pursuant to §§ 13-13-10.1 to 13-13-41 , inclusive, the secretary of the Department of Education must distribute funds to sparse school districts by multiplying the result of the calculation in either subdivision 1…

Terms used in this section and §§ 13-13-82 and 13-13-83 mean: (1) "Eligible school district," a school district that does not receive state aid to education distributed pursuant to chapter 13-13 and that operates a high school primarily focused on career and technical education; …

An eligible school district shall receive an amount equal to the per student equivalent as defined in § 13-13-10.1 multiplied by the number of eligible students included in its fall enrollment as defined in § 13-13-10.1 . Source: SL 2008, ch 79 , § 2; SL 2016, ch 83 , § 11.

The amount calculated in § 13-13-82 and in § 13-13-87 shall be distributed to an eligible school district in the same manner as other state aid payments are distributed pursuant to § 13-13-74 from funds appropriated in the general appropriations act for state aid to education. So…

The secretary of education may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to provide for the certification of resident pupils attending public or private schools in another state. Source: SL 2009, ch 75 , § 3.

The secretary of the Department of Education shall transfer on a noncash basis to the executive director of the Board of Regents the amount of state aid to education funds necessary to award jump start scholarships pursuant to §§ 13-55-47 to 13-55-51 , inclusive, to all students …

If a child is residing in a licensed group care center for minors which provides care for children who are not living with their parents or guardian, the school residence of the child is the school district where the parents or guardian reside, subject to the provisions of § 13-2…

The Department of Education shall pay tuition to a school district providing education for children pursuant to § 13-28-11 . The amount shall be calculated as follows: (1) Multiply the tuition rate set by the Department of Social Services pursuant to § 13-28-39 by the number of d…

There is hereby created in the state treasury the workforce education fund to provide grants for the purposes of providing secondary career and technical education programs. Any general funds appropriated to the workforce education program shall be transferred into the workforce …

The secretary of the Department of Education shall authorize and disburse money from the workforce education fund to fund new and existing secondary career and technical education programs. In any fiscal year, up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars may be distributed to private…

The South Dakota Board of Education Standards shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 regarding the application process and timelines, the guidelines and criteria for approval of applications, and the distribution of funds from the workforce education fund. Source: SL 201…

The amount of funding to be distributed to the school districts shall be the local need as determined in § 13-13-10.1 less the technology and assessment costs and the sparse school district benefits. The amount for technology and assessment costs and sparse school district benefi…

The state general fund savings obtained through the state aid to education formula from the difference between the school general fund levy for agriculture property for taxes payable in 2018 pursuant to §§ 13-13-71 , 13-13-72 , and 13-13-72.1 and the agriculture property levy ado…

The secretary of education is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with any agency of the United States government for the purposes of education, to receive grants of federal funds for those purposes, and to expend such funds under such rules and regulations as the South Dak…

The governing board of any school district organized pursuant to chapter 13-5 may authorize one or more private, nonprofit benevolent organizations to, independently of the control of the school district, accept and solicit donations, gifts, grants, or other private financial res…

Any private, nonprofit benevolent organization authorized pursuant to § 13-14-13 may propose, advocate, or suggest to the governing board of the school district that the funds proffered by the organization be utilized with regard to various curricula, activities, or other program…

There is hereby established in the Department of Education a classroom innovation grant program. The purpose of the grant program is to provide funding for developing teacher training and classroom access to virtual education and customized learning tools and to expand course off…

The secretary of education is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with any agency of the United States government to administer programs for the receipt, allocation, and distribution of surplus commodities to schools, child care centers, summer camps, state institutions, co…

All revenues received by the State of South Dakota from the federal government of the United States as South Dakota's share of income from lands owned by the United States in South Dakota pursuant to section 35 of the federal Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, and pursuant…

When revenue is received pursuant to § 13-14-3.1 , a semiannual itemized statement of each school district's entitlement shall be delivered by the Department of Education to the state auditor who shall thereupon draw warrants on the state treasurer for the amounts designated on t…

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 13-14-3.2 , revenue received from producing oil wells or operating mines shall be assigned by the state treasurer to the common school interest and income fund and shall be apportioned and distributed in the same manner as permanent school fund…

Public school districts in South Dakota are hereby authorized to enter into contracts with federal agencies under the provisions of federal laws to receive grants of federal funds, as provided by federal acts and to expend such funds according to the laws and regulations of the S…

Every school district in this state is hereby empowered to accept, own, manage, and dispose of any grant, gift, devise, or bequest of money, or real or personal property; and the school board of such school district shall have power to enter into such agreement for the receipt th…

A school district is hereby authorized to enter into contracts and agreements with the state, its agencies and institutions and any political subdivisions for educational purposes and services. Source: SL 1965, ch 61 ; SL 1975, ch 128 , § 89.

School districts may contract with each other to share the services of employees. Source: SL 1965, ch 61 as added by SL 1969, ch 52 ; SL 1975, ch 128 , § 90.

The school board of a school district bordering on one or more districts may enter into an agreement or contract with the officers of the adjacent school district or districts, if the provisions of such agreement or contract have been approved by the secretary of the Department o…

There is hereby established in the Department of Education a shared employee services grant program. The purpose of the grant program is to provide an incentive for school districts to share an employee pursuant to § 13-15-1.1 . The South Dakota Board of Education Standards shall…

The school board of any school district with boundaries adjoining another state may enter into an agreement or contract with the officers of a school district in another state when the provisions of such agreement or contract have been approved by the secretary of the Department …