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• The Department of Education and the Board of Regents have designed remediation courses identified students would take before attending college, if needed, rather than after starting. The new system identifies those students while they are still in high school by their ACT scores.
• The Department of Natural Resources reports the state is only one of seven in the nation to meet all national air and water standards.
• The Department of Transportation, said Daugaard, reports the state's highways and bridges are in as "good a shape as they have ever been."
• The Education and Enhancement Corporation, said Daugaard, is refinancing the proceeds from tobacco fund laws that will eventually put more money into the edu

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