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issue in education, is a lack of adequate state funding for local school districts.
• A better way to improve the quality of education would be to study the practices that work best in school districts and apply those same approaches in all districts, Arsenault said.
• The SDEA represents more than 7,000 elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, support personnel and retired educators.
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• SD counterfeiter sentenced to 2 years in prison
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man accused of making counterfeit money has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $320 in restitution.

• Twenty-three-year-old Carlos Ambriz was indicted by a federal grand jury in January and pleaded guilty in March.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Ambriz last December used a computer and printer to make fake $5 and $20 bills that he passed at various Sioux Falls businesses. Johnson says Ambriz used some of the bogus bills to pay for a hotel room where he intended to make more counterfeit money, but a hotel clerk detected the phony bills and called police.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has pleaded not guilty to killing an endangered whooping crane and then persuading a witness to withhold information from law officers.
• Twenty-five-year-old Jeff Blachford, of Miller, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and witness tampering. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Blachford could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
• Blachford is accused of shooting the crane and a hawk in Hand County in April.
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• FORDYCE, Neb. (AP) -- A 23-year-old South Dakota woman has been killed in a car collision with a semitrailer in northeast Nebraska.
• Cedar County authorities say Stacey Myers, of Yankton, S.D., died early Sunday morning. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. west of Fordyce on U.S. Highway 81,

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