HB1290

HB 1290 modifies how South Dakota calculates school districts' funding by changing the rules for counting students (fall enrollment) that determines state education aid, including clarifying how to count students in state agency care and adjusting the teacher ratio factors used in funding formulas. The bill specifically revises the definitions and procedures in state law that schools and the Department of Education use to determine which students count toward a district's enrollment number for state aid distribution purposes.