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something above 3 percent," Pogany said.
• Schools have delayed spending on many programs because they haven't recovered from the 2011 spending cuts, he said, when state aid to school districts was cut by about 6 percent. That led to staff and program reductions.
• "There are still some holes in the hull of the ship we need to patch up," Pogany said.
• But the debate on school funding has been complicated by voters' rejection in November of a proposed sales tax increase that would have raised an extra $180 million, which would have been split between schools and Medicaid providers. Daugaard said he believed that vote, plus voters' rejection of his school reform measure, indicated South Dakotans want to keep education as it is.
• In his budget address, Daugaard also warned lawmakers that President Barack Obama and Congress will eventually have to cut federal spending, which might mean the state has to spend more to offset lost federal money in some programs.
• Lust said uncertainty over federal spending will complicate the Legislature's efforts to pass a state budget.
• "It will be an interesting debate because a lot of what's going on in D.C. has really put a cloud on what we do in this state and legislators' willingness to be looser with the purse strings," Lust said.
• Hunhoff said the governor's proposed 3 percent boost in state aid to schools is insufficient because it is calculated on the ongoing base and doesn't take into account the extra one-time money schools received this year.
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