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Schoenbeck: Raise Sales Tax to Avoid Playing Games with K-12 Funding Law

Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just cowboy up and raise the sales tax: Schoenbeck said the state could live up to the index factor this year by immediately returning the state’s sales tax to 4.5%. The Legislature and then-Gov. Noem temporarily reduced the rate to 4.2% in 2023, costing the state more than $100 million in annual reve…
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Dakota Free Press broke the news in on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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