PIERRE, (KCCR) — Education was another focus point for the candidates running for governor during a debate aired earlier this week by South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Republican Governor Larry Rhoden and Democratic challenger Dan Ahlers addressed the biggest challenge facing education and what they would do to change it. Rhoden says it’s funding and his administration has done that…
Rhoden added he and former Governor Kristi Noem, who he was Lieutenant Governor for increased teacher pay over seven-percent above requirements. Ahlers suggested the state had avenues to retain teachers but chose to go a different direction with a half-cent sales tax increase 10 years ago…
Absentee voting is open now across South Dakota. The deadline to register to vote in the November general election is October 19th.
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