This by Terry Wooster/Argus Leader:
Republicans in the South Dakota Senate feel much abused. . . . Senate Republicans did lead an ultimately unsuccessful move to cut $1,000 from the four-year value of the program. That captured public attention.
But at the same time, Senate Republican leader Eric Bogue and the rest of his caucus say they tried to stabilize the scholarship by writing into law a $5 million annual commitment to the program and by repealing a law that requires individual payments to students be reduced if the state doesn't have enough money to pay each student a full share. When Gov. Mike Rounds vetoed a bill carrying those changes, the scholarship remained at $5,000, but the prorating provision remained, too.
Our readers will know that we here at SDPolitics were enthusiastically in favor of full funding for the scholarships. Keeping students in South Dakota is a vital interest for the state if we don't want the ghost town to be our most common form of civic life.
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