A key state lawmaker who helped draft the plan to increase teacher pay in South Dakota is not going back to Pierre next session.
Republican State Representative Jacqueline Sly failed to achieve enough votes in the primary race against incumbent State Senator Phil Jensen.
Sly was a co-chair of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force and a key supporter of the half cent sales tax increase passed last year by lawmakers. Jensen is among 10 state senators who voted against the final passage of the bill.