ASBSD will spend association reserves to balance next year’s budget, the ASBSD Board of Directors decided during their May board meeting in Pierre.

Seven positions on the ASBSD Board of Directors will be open for election this fall, including a spot recently vacated by ASBSD Second Vice-President Theresa Hoarty, a school board member from Wessington Springs.

Payne is one of the nation’s leading experts on poverty and the mindsets of economic classes – a qualification that makes her one of the most coveted education speakers in America.

The cost of putting on the ASBSD and SASD Joint Convention will increase more than $21,000 next year, prompting the two organizations to raise the registration fee to $185.