School administrators salary cap fails in Senate
But a majority of other senators don't.
Her legislation, Senate Bill 161, sought to limit school administrators to no more than three times the average teacher salary in each school district.
SB 161 squeaked out of the Senate Education Committee 4-3 on Thursday.
On Friday, however, it failed in the Senate, 13-22.
Peterson said the latest national figures show South Dakota ranks 49th in teacher pay and 16th in administrator pay.
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'We need to ask ourselves if we want the best teachers in front of our children. Yes, we want good administrators in our schools, but we also need to keep the excellent teachers in our classroom,' Peterson said.
Democratic Sen. Jamie Smith, a former teacher whose wife continues to teach, said capping administrators' salaries wasn't the way to raise teachers' salaries.
'But by pushing somebody else down is not how you, how you, how you raise everybody else. No. We're going to make sure we have great administrators in our districts and encourage the best, and we need to work on the teacher part, too,' Smith said.
Republican Sen. Kevin Jensen said Peterson's plan could lead to administrators taking pay cuts as teaching ranks turn over.
'In many of our school districts, we have aging and retiring teachers who are at the top of their salary levels, and we're replacing them with entry-level base pay salaries,' Jensen said.
Republican Sen. Carl Perry said Peterson's proposal would undercut school boards.
'Is it the school board that's going to make these decisions for us, for you, for your school, for your kids? And do you want local control?' Perry asked. 'If you want local control, then let them do their job.'
Peterson replied, 'This is a really good example of where local control is not working. And so if you like the numbers 49 and 16, I urge you to vote no on this bill. If you don't like those numbers, I urge you to vote yes on Senate Bill 161.'
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