| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Permits four year higher education institutions to offer doctorate in Marine Science with approval of Commission on Higher Education. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/5051.htm
Title: H.B. 5051
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits home school students, or students attending a Governor's school or charter school to participate in interscholastic activities in the school districts in which the student resides, pursuant of certain conditions. Prohibits a school district from contracting with a private entity that supervises interscholastic activities if the private entity prohibits the participation of these students in interscholastic activities. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/149.htm
Title: S.B. 149
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Extends the induction contract period from one year to three years. After three years, a teacher is eligible for employment at the annual contract level. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3028.htm
Title: H.B. 3028
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides charter school powers and duties and permits a sponsor to retain certain funds for overseeing a charter school; creates the charter school facility revolving loan program for the construction, purchase, renovation, and maintenance of public charter school facilities; permits a public or independent institution of higher learning to sponsor a charter school and determines that the geographical boundaries from which a charter school sponsored by a public or independent institution of higher learning is the same as the boundaries of the state; allows for the application to create a single gender charter school; designates responsibilities to sponsor for special education and ensuring students are served in a manner consistent with LEA obligations; determines membership requirements for board of directors; allows charter school students to participate in certain extracurricular activities under certain conditions; allows a charter school to contract with providers for student transportation; clarifies what must be included in a contract between a charter school and sponsor and requires the department of education to create a contract template that must serve as a foundation for the development of the contract; allows a converted charter school to retain facilities and equipment available before conversion; prohibits acts of unlawful reprisal towards school personnel and educational programs of a school or district because of an application to establish a charter school; directs the distribution process of funds to charter schools; directs the department of education to develop a template to be used by converted charter schools in the creation of annual reports submitted to the sponsor; and provides that a charter school is a covered employer with respect to the South Carolina retirement systems for certain school district employees. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3241.htm
Title: H.B. 3241
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires two hours of training in youth suicide awareness and prevention as a requirement for the renewal of credentials of individuals employed in a middle school or high school. The required training counts toward the one hundred twenty renewal credits specified in Department of Education regulations for renewal of credentials and can be accomplished through self-review of suicide prevention materials. Begins with the 2013-2014 school year. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/4690.htm
Title: H.B. 4690
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires all state institutions of higher education to allow students to complete assignments or take make-up examinations when an absence is caused by attending or participating in military service, duty, training, or disaster relief efforts. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/3558_20120425.htm
Title: H.B. 3558
Source: scstatehouse.gov |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that students who take two courses based on the same academic standards for which there is an end-of-course test would take the test for the first course and the score would count as 20% of the final grade. If the student passes the first course, the second course would not be a gateway course for that student. The student would not take an end-of-course test for the second course and the student's final grade would be calculated without an end-of-course score (Legislative approval of a state board action). http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/1201.htm
Title: S.J.R. 1201
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. |
Transparency and Efficiency
Requires each public institution of higher learning to maintain a transaction register that includes a complete record of all funds expended, from whatever source for whatever purpose. Provides that the register must be prominently posted on the institution's Internet website and made available for public viewing and downloading. Grants the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education the authority to employ and administer certain administrative efficiency provisions.
Comprehensive Human Resources System
Directs the State Budget and Control Board's State Office of Human Resources to participate with five representatives selected by the respective presidents of the public institutions of higher learning and technical colleges to represent all of the public institutions of higher learning and technical colleges to study, develop, and recommend a separate, comprehensive human resources system for the public institutions of higher learning and technical colleges. Provides that the recommendation must include, but not be limited to, prescription of a methodology to establish a uniform compensation and classification plan among the public institutions of higher learning and technical colleges.
Facility and Procurement
Defines "permanent improvement project" for institutions of higher learning and revises the procurement statutory provisions.
Public Vote for Tuition Change
When the governing board of a public institution of higher learning, excluding technical colleges, adopts a change to the tuition or fees imposed on students, the change may be implemented by the institution only after a public vote with the number of trustees voting for and against the change being counted. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/172.htm
Title: S.B. 172
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Suspends the requirement that the Department of Education (DOE) provide printed copies of 2011 district and school report cards. Requires a school district or school within the district to provide parents with a link to the report cards via email or other communication methods upon certain conditions. Requires the DOE to suspend writing assessments for certain grades and to provide that writing assessments may not be used in growth calculation. Suspends the requirement that schools advertise district and school 2011 report cards, but requires the results to be provided to an area newspaper of general circulation. Allows high schools to offer state-funded WorkKey assessments to certain students. Provides for a one-year grace period for certain recipients of a South Carolina Teacher Loan and requires the South Carolina Student Loan Corporation to develop forms and procedures to implement the grace period. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3663.htm
Title: H.B. 3663
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Extends the date by which the Education and Economic Development Act, now called Personal Pathways to Success, must be implemented fully (the primary goals of Personal Pathways to Success are to increase high school completion rates, better prepare students for work and college, increase parental involvement, and increase options for students at risk of dropping out of school). Provides that Personal Pathways to Success must be implemented fully by July 1, 2012 (was July 1, 2011). http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3748.htm
Title: H.B. 3748
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the South Carolina Dyslexia Task Force to study and evaluate practices for diagnosing, treating, and educating children with dyslexia and to examine how current statutes and regulations affect these students. Provides for the compostition of the tast force. Requires the task force to report its findings to the General Assembly. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/241.htm
Title: S.J.R. 241
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Curriculum--Science |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Clarifies the science course requirement for receiving a high school diploma. Current law requires students to pass a science course in a subject in which the end-of-course assessment is administered to earn a state high school diploma. Amends current law to provide that for the graduation classes of 2011 and 2012, students who earn a unit of credit in either biology or physical science will count that course credit as the required science course for graduation purposes. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/686.htm
Title: S.J.R. 686
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that for Fiscal Year 2011-2012, a local school district board of trustees may determine that all teachers employed by the district must be paid based on the step they were paid in the prior fiscal year, without a negative impact resulting to their experience credit. Provides that this decision must be voted on by the local school district board of trustees in a public school board meeting with public notice posted on the school district website. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3642.htm
Title: H.J.R. 3642
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of health and environmental control to implement a targeted community program for dental health education, screening, and treatment referral in the public schools for children in kindergarten, 3rd, 7th, and 10th grades or upon entry into a public school; requires the department to target 3 to 5 counties of need; requires the school nurse/designee to notify and advise the child's parent or guardian to seek further professional attention for the child if indicated by the screening; requires, upon receipt of written permission from the parent or guardian, the school also to notify the community oral health coordinator who will serve as a facilitator if further attention is needed upon completion of the screening. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/286.htm
Title: S.B. 286
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Education Bill of Rights for Children in Foster Care; requires school districts to have in place procedures to ensure seamless transitions between schools and school districts for children upon notice that a child is in foster care; requires school districts to consider maintaining a child in foster care in the same school if it is in the child's best interest; prohibits a school district from placing additional enrollment requirements on a child based solely on the fact that the child is in foster care.
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/1134.htm
Title: S.B. 1134
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes South Carolina as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which seeks to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/319.htm
Title: S.B. 319
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department of education, for the 2010-2011 school year, to suspend the writing assessments in grades 3, 4, 6 and 7; Provides that writing assessments may be administered only to students in grades 5 and 8 and that writing assessments may not be used in Education Accountability Act growth calculations. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 3
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Permits high schools to offer state-funded WorkKeys (i.e., a job skill assessment system) to 10th grade students using funds appropriated for the assessment of PSAT or PLAN; Provides that the selection of the test for each student should be informed by the student's individual graduation plan, cluster selection, guidance counselor advisement, and parent or legal guardian consent. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 4
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Directs the state Department of Education, in collaboration with the Education Oversight Committee, to convene a task force to include, but not be limited to, district level instructional and assessment personnel to examine the feasibility of shifting from the use of the High School Apprenticeship Program (HSAP) to end-of-course assessments for meeting federal assessment requirements; Requires the task force to, at a minimum, examine the utility of the HSAP and end-of-course assessment programs and the benefits and information each provides as well as implementation considerations, costs factors, and appropriate transition timelines the state encounters in shifting from HSAP to end-of-course assessments for federal purposes; Requires the task force to submit its findings to the Senate Finance Committee, Senate Education Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, House Education and Public Works Committee, the State Board of Education, and the Education Oversight Committee by January 15, 2011. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 7
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Criminal Record Search: Requires individuals hired by a local school board to serve in any capacity in a public school to undergo a criminal record search conducted by the local school district using records maintained by the state law enforcement division; requires a local school board to adopt, by August 1, 2010, a written policy that specifies the required criminal record search as well as how the information received from the search impacts hiring decisions; the board policy must stipulate whether the district or the applicant assumes the cost of the criminal record search and must include, at a minimum (1) a prohibition of hiring individuals convicted of violent crimes as defined in state statute and (2) hiring recommendations relative to felony convictions and relevant just-cause examples as provided in state statute; directs the state law enforcement division, working with the department of education, to provide training to appropriate school district personnel regarding appropriate use of the information provided in criminal record searches.
Sex Offender Registry Check: Requires school districts to perform a national sex offender registry check on all district employees hired to serve in any capacity in a public school and all volunteers who work in a school on an interim or regular basis as mentors, coaches, or any other capacity, or volunteers who serve as student chaperones or any other capacity having direct interaction with students; directs the state law enforcement division, working with the department of education, to provide training to appropriate district personnel on the appropriate uses of the database; requires the board to adopt, by August 1, 2010, a written policy that specifies the sex offender registry check as well as how information received from the search impacts hiring decisions; requires the policy to include, at a minimum, a prohibition of hiring individuals required to register as sex offenders pursuant state statute. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4248.htm
Title: H.B. 4248
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Finance |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that a local school district may pay teachers based on the years of experience the teacher possessed in fiscal year 2009-2010 without negative impact to their experience credit; Provides that school districts may not pay district or school administrators more than they received in fiscal year 2009-2010; Requires districts to pay teachers and school and district administrators for changes in their education level. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4838.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4838
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Suspends the requirement that the department of education provide printed copies of 2010 district and school report cards; Requires schools and school districts to provide parents with a link ot the report cards via email or other communication methods upon certain conditions. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 1 and 2
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Provides for a 1-year grace period for certain recipients of a SC teacher loan and requires the SC student loan corporation to develop forms and procedures to implement the grace period. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec.
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Allows an individual, for fiscal year 2010-2011, who received a SC Teacher Loan and completed an undergraduate or graduate degree in education in calendar year 2009 or 2010, and who was not employed in a public school in SC by September 1, 2010, or the 2010-2011 school year to elect to receive a one-year grace period that allows the individual to defer making loan repayments for one calendar year; Requires interest to accrue during this deferral period; Directs the SC Student Loan Corporation to develop the forms and procedures to implement and monitor the grace period. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 5
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts to treat a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject in the same manner the district treats a student's voluntary expression of a secular or other viewpoint on an otherwise permissible subject and must not discriminate against the student based on a religious viewpoint expressed by the student on an otherwise permissible subject; permits a student to express his or her beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of his submission; permits students to organize prayer groups, religious clubs, 'see you at the pole' gatherings, or other religious gatherings before, during, and after school to the same extent that students are permitted to organize other noncurricular student activities and groups; allows a school district to disclaim school sponsorship of noncurricular groups and events in a manner that neither favors nor disfavors groups that meet to engage in prayer or religious speech.
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/134.htm
Title: S.B. 134
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Vetoed 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates the State certified athletic trainers foundation to encourage and assist local school districts and schools in ensuring that a certified athletic trainer is on staff at each high school and middle school of this state.
Title: S.B. 481
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides salary supplements for teachers who obtain National Board Certification. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/1363.htm
Title: S.B. 1363
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Permitted local school districts to delay by one month the date by which they must to notify teachers of whether their contract was renewed for the 2010-2011 school year. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4299.htm
Title: H.B. 4299
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Vetoed 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the jurisdiction of campus police officers at private colleges. As proposed in the legislation, the authority of campus police officers would have been extended to specific off-campus activities such as accompanying a school employee to make a bank deposit, patrolling off-campus property owned or leased by a college, travelling with an athletic team, or at institution-sponsored events like graduation ceremonies and concerts held in rented facilities. To address intimating and threatening behavior or imminent danger on the edge of a campus, jurisdiction would have been expanded no more than 100 yards from the campus's property boundary. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/cgi-bin/web_bh10.exe;
Title: S.B. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that the prohibition on the carrying of weapons on school property does not apply to a person who is authorized to carry a concealed weapon when the weapon is inside a motor vehicle and secured; extends this exemption to any premises or property owned, operated, or controlled by a private or public school, college, university, technical college, or other post-secondary institution. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/prever/593_20090514.htm
Title: S.B. 593
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows local school districts and special schools to transfer funds among appropriated revenues in order to ensure the delivery of academic and arts instruction; allows school districts suspend certain professional staffing ratios; negotiates salaries for retired teachers; allows school districts to furlough teachers and district administrators; allows school districts to purchase the most economical type of bus fuel. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/cgi-bin/query.exe?first=DOC&querytext=3352&category=Legislation&session=118&conid=4711663&result_pos=0&keyval=1183352
Title: H.B. 3352
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov |
Health--Nutrition |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Ensures that school meals meet nutrition standards for saturated fat, vitamins, minerals, protein, calories, and portion sizes. Provides specifically that in order for school districts to apply for a federal grant, they need to offer a minimum of two milk choices: 1 percent fat, and nonfat milk) for all grades levels (K-5) at breakfast and lunch. Previously, the regulation required three milk choices: 2 percent fat, 1 percent fat, and nonfat milk. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/coderegs/c043.htm
Title: R. 43-168
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/coderegs/c043.htm |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to the School to Work Transition Act.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html
Title: H.B. 4934
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.ne |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec. |
(Joint Resolution) Extends the date by which the Higher Education Task Force must submit their recommendations for the higher education statewide strategic plan to the General Assembly until September 15, 2008. Act 399
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html
Title: S.B. 1034
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Rejected by voters 08/2008 |
P-12 |
(CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT QUESTION 2; S 463 - 2008) On November 2008 ballot. Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide that the funds of any trust fund established by law for funding of post employment benefits for state employees and public school teachers may be invested and reinvested in equity securities subject to the same limitations on such investments applicable for the funds of the various state operated retirement systems.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education relating to free textbooks.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html
Title: H.B. 4935
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "improvement" to "growth." Requires the statewide assessment program to specifically include English/language arts, mathematics, science and social studies (referred to earlier as "the four academic areas") and to be administered in 2009. Sets and defines student performance levels of "Not Met, Met and Exemplary." Allows publication of the annual report card to be delayed until no later than February 2010. Describes required components of report cards. Requires the state board to create a statewide adoption list of formative assessments for grades 1-9 aligned with state standards in English/language arts and mathematics -- for use beginning in the 2009-2010 school year. Revises other features of assessment and accreditation. d; provide for a designation to signify varying levels of school academic performance; revises provisions regarding education accountability; provides that the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test does not meet certain requirements; provides for use of the monetary savings from revised inspection provisions. http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc
Title: H.B. 4662
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
For schools or districts designated as "at risk" (changed from "unsatisfactory), teacher specialists may be assigned to work across grade levels and subject areas. Such teachers will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 50% of the current southeastern average teacher salary. Specialists are limited to three years in one school unless exceptions are made. To recruit principal specialists, who will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 1.25 times the supplement amount calculated for teachers. They may be employed as a component of the technical assistance strategy for two years and may continue for a third year if requested by the local board, the external review team or the state board. Modifies other provisions related to technical assistance -- including allowing schools to use technical assistance funds to provide homework centers.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc
Title: H.B. 4662 -- Amends Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires each school district to develop and implement an external defibrillator program for each high school which requires that such a defibrillator is provided on the grounds of each high school, that district employees and volunteers reasonably expected to use the device are trained in its use, and that the devices are periodically inspected and annually maintained.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3723.doc
Title: H.B. 3723
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian has been called to active duty more than a specified number of miles outside of his residence is eligible to attend the public schools of that school district; authorizes nonresident military personnel to enroll in programs designed to award a State high school diploma.
Act 323
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/4320.doc
Title: H.B. 4320
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that any high school student who is the victim of physical abuse, harassment, or stalking by a classmate during school hours or otherwise resulting in a restraining order being granted against the classmate by a court of competent jurisdiction, may transfer with the consent of the student's school district to another high school within or out of the district without any loss of eligibility to participate in interscholastic activities at the school to which the student transfers. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/4758.htm
Title: H.B. 4758
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Deletes all of Article 5 -- Academic Plans for Students. These plans included academic review for students performing below standard; required plans to consider summer school; required parent participation, etc.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc
Title: H.B. 4662 -- Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2008 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Light Rail Consortium; provides for facilities-based advanced high performance communications infrastructure in support of the mission of the State academic institutions that are members of the consortium; defines the State Light Rail as a communication grid network where State academic institutions and private entities tap into fiber optic networks which carry high volumes of data at high speed allowing faculty members in different locations to collaborate in real time; restricts access. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4953_20080604.htm
Title: H.B. 4953
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to the approval, renewal, revocation, and termination of charters for charter schools; increases the charter period from five to ten years; transfers certain authority pertaining to approval, renewal, revocation, and termination of charters from the State Board of Education to the Administrative Law Court.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/4980.htm
Title: H.B. 4980
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Passed 05/2008 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Proposes an amendment to the constitution relating to benefits and funding of public employee pension plans and investments allowed for funds of the various state-operated retirement systems; provides that the funding for post-employment benefits for state employees and public school teachers may be invested and reinvested in equity securities subject to the same limitations as funds of the various state-operated retirement systems.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/463_20080403.htm
Title: S.B. 463
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Supplements the school districts negatively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability; provides that a school district positively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability shall direct the excess funds towards nonrecurring allowable expenditures. Act 364
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html
Title: S.B. 1075
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
Postsec. |
Provides that a resident attending an out-of-state high school is eligible to receive a Palmetto Fellows Scholarship or a Life Scholarship; relates to grade point averages and standardized grading. Adds provision clarifying that for the purposes of meeting the rank criteria, "the existing high school rank of a South Carolina resident attending an out-of-state high school may be used provided it is calculated pursuant to a state-approved, standardized grading scale at the respective out-of-state high school. If the Commission on Higher Education determines that a state-approved standardized grading scale substantially deviates from the South Carolina Uniform Grading Scale, the state-approved standardized grading scale shall not be used to meet the eligibility requirements for the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship." Increased the minimum qualifying SAT or equivalent ACT score for the Life Scholarship from 1000 to 1100. Governor vetoed, but overriden by House and Senate: Act No. 178.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/3379_20080123.htm
Title: H.B. 3379
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates a new gang prevention study committee to continue the work of the initial gang prevention study committee to assess and combat the state's ongoing gang problem by bringing together state agencies to coordinate gang reduction plans and make further recommendations addressing gang-related activity in the state; relates to recommendations of school support programs, faith-based programs and gang court. Act 401
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/4630.doc
Title: H.B. 4630
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Approves regulations of the Board of Education. This regulation addresses the requirement of the Education and Economic Development Act of 2005 that a separate regulation be written for at-risk students. The regulation defines at-risk students and outlines specific objective criteria for districts to use in the identification of students at-risk for being poorly prepared for the next level of study or for dropping out of school. The criterion includes diagnostic assessments to identify strengths and weaknesses in the core academic areas. The State Department of Education in collaboration with school districts will ensure that students are being properly identified and provided timely, appropriate guidance and assistance and to ensure that no group is disproportionately represented. The regulation includes evidence-based model programs for at-risk students designed to ensure that students have an opportunity to graduate with a state high school diploma. It will include an evaluation of model programs in place in each high school to ensure the programs are providing students an opportunity to graduate with a state high school diploma.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/3628_20070410.htm
Title: H.B. 3628
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Adds a new section (59-18-1600) to provide that a school that has received an unsatisfactory absolute academic performance rating on its most recent report card to offer an orientation class for parents to focus on certain issues (the value of education, discipline, for example), to provide for written notification to parents about the date and time of the class, and to provide that a parent or guardian of each student registered to attend the school attend the orientation class.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3254.htm
Title: H.B. 3254
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Vetoed 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides for a pilot "testing" of a public school open enrollment choice program in the public school system.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3124.htm
Title: H.B. 3124
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Religion |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that the board of trustees of any state school district may offer an elective course teaching the history and literature of the Old Testament era and an elective course teaching the history and literature of the New Testament era; provides that such courses must be taught in an objective manner with no attempt to indoctrinate students.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/726.htm
Title: S.B. 726
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
Postsec. |
Enacts the Jessica Horton Campus Crime Act; provides that campus police officers shall notify and work with local law enforcement agencies on investigations of a death or rape resulting from an incident occurring on the campus of an institution of higher learning; relates to buildings and property.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/459.htm
Title: S.B. 459
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides for the maximum school bus ride time, school bus driver certification training, provides that parents are responsible for the safety, conduct, and timely arrival of their children to, from, and at the school bus stop; and that the number of students on a school bus must not be greater than the seating capacity; relates to inspection of buses, hazardous traffic criteria, hazardous traffic funds, and unescorted students; relates to the replacement and biodiesel use of buses.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3161.htm
Title: H.B. 3161
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Enacts the American Board for the Certification of the Teacher Excellence Act so as to provide that a school district may hire individuals who are certified by the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) pursuant to certain conditions.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3476.htm
Title: H.B. 3476
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the state department to establish the South Carolina Virtual School Program to provide South Carolina students access to distance, online, or virtual learning courses offered for an initial unit of credit. Requires the South Carolina Virtual School Program to offer access to credit recovery programs for students who have been identified by a school district as not having received credit for a course previously taken or for students who have been identified by a school district as not likely to receive credit for a course in which the student is currently enrolled. Students may enroll in courses for credit recovery based on policies established by the state board. Prohibits the program from awarding a South Carolina High School diploma. Provides requirements such as: Students may be awarded a maximum of three online initial credits in a school year, and no more than twelve online initial credits throughout high school. However, the state board is required to establish an appeals process whereby the governing body of the student's school district may grant a waiver to exceed the established limit.
Requires local school districts to accurately transcribe a student's final numeric grade to the student's permanent record and transcript. Home school students and private school students are to receive a certified grade report indicating date, course, and final numeric grade from the South Carolina Virtual School Program or an entity approved by the state board. Students enrolled in an online course for a unit of credit must be administered final exams and appropriate state assessments in a proctored environment; provides for a study to determine the feasibility of providing the Virtual School Program to students enrolled in adult education programs; provides for an on-line program in a charter school.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html
Title: H.B. 3097
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Nonpublic Post Secondary Institution License Act. Before an institution is licensed under this chapter, the commission may require that a surety bond be provided by the institution in an amount in compliance with the regulations prescribed by the commission. The obligation of the bond is that the institution, its officers, agents, and employees shall faithfully perform the terms and conditions of contracts for tuition and other instructional fees entered into between the institution and persons enrolling as students. The bond must be issued by a company authorized to do business in the State of South Carolina. The bond must be to the commission, in that form as approved by the commission, and is to be used for the benefit of students who suffer financial losses of tuition and fees prepaid to an institution as a result of the closing of the institution. The commission may use the funds for these purposes to pay refunds to these students for unearned tuition and fees, to pay for or subsidize the cost of providing facilities and instruction for these students to complete their programs, or to pay expenses to store and maintain student records of these students.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/321.htm
Title: S.B. 321
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Teachers who hold a professional certificate and who have three or more years of experience teaching in middle grades within the past five years on or before July 1, 2009, will be awarded middle level certification in each subject area in which he or she has three or more years of successful experience according to the guidelines for Middle Grades Teacher Education and Certification. Prior to October 1, 2007, teachers who meet the experience requirement and are adding middle level certification will be exempt from the coursework, subject area exams, and the Principles of Learning and Teaching (middle level test) required for add-on certification in specific middle level areas. Between October 1, 2007, and July 1, 2009, teachers who meet the experience requirement and are adding middle level certification must pass the applicable subject area exam or exams and the Principles of Teaching and Learning test required by the State Board of Education in order to add subject-specific middle level certification. Teachers who have a teaching certificate but do not meet the three-year teaching requirement by July 1, 2009, must complete all coursework and examinations required for add-on certification in middle level areas.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/702_20070502.htm
Title: S.B. 702
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to high school courses in American sign language; provides that a school district may give credit as a foreign language to a pupil who satisfactorily completes a high school course in American sign language.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/1107.doc
Title: S.B. 1107
Source: South Carolina Legislature |
Curriculum |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides grants to school districts to provide financial literacy instruction for students; establishes goals and establishes the Financial Literacy Board of trustees and the purposes of the Board and its composition, functions, and duties; provides for two separate funds to accept public and private monies; provides procedures for applying for a grant; establishes fiscal guidelines, and evaluation requirements; provides for contributions to charitable funds through individual income tax returns.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/4707.doc
Title: H.B. 4707
Source: South Carolina Legislature |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Safe Schools Act to prevent school harassment, intimidation, or bullying, to instruct local school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying that includes certain things, and to develop a training process.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3573_20060530.doc
Title: H.B. 3573
Source: South Carolina Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to create the need for restructuring the state system for training, certifying and evaluating teachers. Addresses the add-on certification, paraprofessionals, the definition of highly qualified teachers, and the suspension and revocation of educator certificates. SOUTH CAROLINA 2635
http://www.myscschools.com/divisions/ga/regs/article_03/62.doc
Title: R 43-62
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds new Section 59-1-425. Authorizes local boards to establish an annual school calendar. The statutory school term is one hundred ninety days annually and must consist of a minimum of one hundred eighty days of instruction covering at least nine calendar months. However, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year the opening date for students must not be before the third Monday in August, except for schools operating on a year-round modified school calendar. Three days must be used for collegial professional development based upon the educational standards as required by Section 59-18-300. The professional development shall address, at a minimum, academic achievement standards including strengthening teachers' knowledge in their content area, teaching techniques, and assessment. No more than two days may be used for preparation of opening of schools and the remaining five days may be used for teacher planning, academic plans, and parent conferences. The number of instructional hours in an instructional day may vary according to local board policy and does not have to be uniform among the schools in the district. All school days missed because of snow, extreme weather conditions, or other disruptions requiring schools to close must be made up. All school districts shall designate annually at least three days within their school calendars to be used as make-up days in the event of these occurrences. Act No. 260
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/4429_20060314.htm
Title: H.B. 4429
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Existing provision provides for the Budget and Control Board to issue a request for proposals for the purpose of conducting a study to determine the feasibility and cost of converting the state assessment program to a computer-based or computer-adaptive format. New provisions states that tests must include a writing assessment and multiple-choice questions designed to reflect a range of cognitive abilities beyond the knowledge level. Constructive response questions may be included as a component of the writing assessment.Adds purpose of state assessment to promote student learning. The statewide assessment program in the four academic areas must include grades three through eight, an exit examination in English/language arts and mathematics, which is to be first administered in a student's second year of high school enrollment beginning with grade nine, and end-of-course tests for gateway courses awarded Carnegie units of credit in English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, students are required to pass a high school credit course in science and a course in United States history in which end-of-course examinations are administered to receive the state high-school diploma. By March 31, 2007, the state board is to create a statewide adoption list of formative assessments aligned with the state content standards and satisfying professional measurement standards in accordance with criteria jointly determined by the Education Oversight Committee and the State Department of Education. The formative assessments must provide diagnostic information in a timely manner to all school districts for each student during the course of the school year. For use beginning with the 2007-08 school year, with funds appropriated by the General Assembly, local districts must be allocated resources to select and administer formative assessments from the statewide adoption list to use to improve student performance in accordance with district improvement plans. However, if a local district already administers formative assessments, the district may continue to use the assessments if they meet the state standards and criteria pursuant to this subsection. Requires the state board to adopt a developmentally appropriate formative reading assessment for use in first and second grades to be administered initially in the 2007-08 school year. The assessment must provide opportunities for periodic formative assessment during the school year, reports that are useful for informing classroom instruction, strand, or significant groupings of standards level information about individual students, and must be compatible with best practices in reading instruction and reading research. The state department is to provide appropriate and on-going professional development to support appropriate use of the assessment. Reqiores the state department to provide on-going professional development in the development and use of classroom assessments, the use of formative assessments and the use of the end-of-year state assessments so that teaching and learning activities are focused on student needs and lead to higher levels of student performance.
To reduce the number of days of testing, to the extent possible, field test items must be embedded with the annual assessments. In accordance with the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, science assessments must be administered annually to all students in one elementary and one middle school grade. The state department is required to develop a sampling plan to administer science and social studies assessments to all other elementary and middle school students. The plan shall provide for all students and both content areas to be assessed annually; however, individual students, except in census testing grades, are not required to take both tests. In the sampling plan, approximately half of the assessments must be administered in science and the other half in social studies in each class. To ensure that school districts maintain the high standard of accountability established in the Education Accountability Act, performance level results reported on school and district report cards must meet consistently high levels in all four core content areas. Beginning with the 2007 report card, the core areas must remain consistent with the following percentage weightings established and approved by the Education Oversight Committee: in grades three through five, thirty percent each for English/language arts and math, and twenty percent each for science and social studies; and in grades six through eight, twenty-five percent each for English/language arts and math, and twenty-five percent each for science and social studies. The state board is to establish a task force to recommend alternative evidence and procedures that may be used to allow students to meet graduation requirements even if they have failed the exit examination. The alternative evidence only may be used in the rare instances where there is compelling evidence that a student is well qualified for graduation, but extreme circumstances have interfered with passage of the exit examination and, for that reason alone, the student would be denied a state high school diploma. The state department is required annually to convene a team of curriculum experts to analyze the results of the assessments, including performance item by item.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/4328_20060315a.htm
Title: H.B. 4328
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Amends and replaces in its entirety R.62-900 of the LIFE Scholarship Program. Three of the amendments make the scholarship regulation consistent with Act 162 which was approved during the 2005 legislative session: 1) students must use grades and credit hours from all eligible institutions attended towards LIFE Scholarship eligibility; 2) eligible students are able to receive scholarship funding at South University; and 3) military personnel and their dependents who have been honorably discharged from active duty may be eligible for the LIFE Scholarship if they establish and maintain residency and domicile in this State and if they paid income taxes in this State during the majority of their years of active military service and meet the academic criteria. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/4540_20060309.htm
Title: H.B. 4541
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Active 03/2006 |
Postsec. |
Provides that the board of trustees of the university of south carolina must be composed of sixteen members to be elected by the general assembly from the congressional districts of the state and the state at large, one member to be appointed by the governor and to number the seats, provide the terms, and provide for vacancies.
Title: H.B. 4846; (NEW BILL)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Issued 02/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Executive Order 2006-01 establishes the Higher Education Task Force to identify concrete ways to lower tuition, ways to reduce program duplication, improve business management processes, and improve and increase statewide coordination and collaboration. Members of the Task Force are to be appointed by the governor and consist of students, parents, professors, representatives of business and the higher education officials.
http://www.scgovernor.com/uploads/executiveorders/2006-01.pdf
Title: E.O. 29
Source: http://www.scgovernor.com |
P-3 |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Provides that the First Steps to School Readiness Act is reauthorized until July 1, 2013; provides for early childhood development. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/947_20060126.htm
Title: S.B. 947
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Postsecondary |
Issued 02/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the South Carolina Higher Education Task Force. The task force will examine ways to improve the state's system of higher education, including identifying concrete steps that can be taken to lower tuition at the state's public institutions of higher learning, reducing program duplication, improving business management practices and improving and increasing statewide coordinatino and collaboration of higher education. Task force will work with the Commssion on Higher Education and its commisioners to make recommendations in a final report to the governor by June 30, 2006. Defines membership of task force.
http://www.scgovernor.com/uploads/executiveorders/2006-01.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2006-01
Source: http://www.scgovernor.com/ |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a phased-in basis. Provides for physical education teacher to student ratio. Provides for a measure of effectiveness of the physical education program and for a physical education activity director. Provides for the appropriation of of funds for licensed nurses in elementary schools. Provides for a coordinated school health model and an assessment program for school health programs. Provides for the minimum amount of time elementary school students must have to eat lunch. Provides for the establishment of a district level and elementary level coordinated school health advisory council and sets its powers and dutires. Provides for a weekly nutrition component for the health curriculum. Implementation is contingent on funding. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3499_20050525.htm
Title: H.B. 3499
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
P-3 |
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Act addresses circumstances relating to children and lead poisoning. Revises requirements. Affects child care facilities. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3582_20050526.htm
Title: H.B. 3582
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Joint resolution to approve regulations of the state board of education; The state board promulgated amendments to R 43-243.4, Utilization of Generic Teacher Certification, that will allow persons holding a generic teaching certificate issued by the state department to provide instruction to students with mild disabilities diagnosed as learning disabled, emotionally disabled, or educable mentally disabled through either a resource or an itinerant services delivery model. Persons holding a generic teaching certificate are also authorized to provide instruction in a self-contained setting for students diagnosed as learning disabled or educable mentally disabled. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3892_20050519.htm
Title: H.J.R. 3892
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Act No. 49 changes references from "vocational" to "career and technology." http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3413_20050427.htm
Title: H.B. 3413
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem solving skills. During the 2005-06 school year, the department of education must develop a guidance and counseling model that provides standards and strategies for school districts to use and follow in developing and implementing a comprehensive guidance and counseling program for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students in their districts. Before July 1, 2006, the department of education is required to develop state models and prototypes for individual graduation plans and the curriculum framework for career clusters of study. Beginning with the 2006-07 school year, counseling and career awareness programs on clusters of study must be provided to students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, and they must receive career interest inventories and information to assist them in the career decision-making process. Before the end of the second semester of the eighth grade, eighth grade students in consultation with their parents, guardians, or individuals appointed by the parents or guardians to serve as their designee shall select a preferred cluster of study and develop an individual graduation plan. By the 2006-07 school year, middle schools and by 2007-08 high schools shall provide students with the services of a career specialist who has obtained a bachelor's degree and who has successfully completed the national Career Development Facilitator (CDF) certification training or certified guidance counselor having completed the Career Development Facilitator certification training.Provides for the traits that must be incorporated into school board policies addressing character education. Expands the report card to include dropout data. Establishes and sets membership for the Education and Economic Development Coordinating Council. Sets the functions as:
(1) advise the Department of Education on the implementation of this chapter;
(2) review accountability and performance measures for implementation of this chapter;
(3) designate and oversee the coordination and establishment of the regional centers;
(4) report annually by December first to the Governor, the General Assembly, the state board and other appropriate governing boards on the progress, results, and compliance with the provisions of this chapter and its ability to provide a better prepared workforce and student success in postsecondary education;
(5) make recommendations to the department of education for the development and implementation of a communication and marketing plan to promote statewide awareness of the provisions of this chapter; and
(6) provide input to the state board of education and others as appropriate.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3155_20050519.htm
Title: H.B. 3155
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Adds a new Section 56-3-5400. Allows the department to issue Arts Awareness special license plates to establish a special fund to be used by the South Carolina Arts Commission for the purpose of funding activities that support a thriving arts environment in South Carolina. The biennial fee for the special license plates is seventy dollars in addition to the regular motor vehicle license plate fee. Sets a minimum number of applications necessary (400 or more, or a deposit of $4,000) before the department can produces and distribute the plates. Requires a marketing plan. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/418_20050428.htm
Title: S.B. 418
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Amends Chapter 50, Title 59, relating to the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. Sets standards for the faculty (hold advanced degrees in recognized arts fields including, but not limited to, dance, music, theater or drama, visual arts, and creative writing, and previously have taught students in a pre-professional and professional arts instructional program setting or are practicing master artists whose professional expertise can be demonstrated by their training and accomplishments as recognized by state or national arts organizations and affiliations. As an alternative to traditional certification, the faculty for pre-professional and professional instruction shall participate annually in master artists professional development programs.) Sets the composition of the board of directors. Requires out of state or international students to pay tuition. Requires the board of directors to adopt policies and promulage regulations necessary for the operation and management of the school (Act No. 84). http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/362_20050517.htm
Title: S.B. 362
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires districts to adopt policy requiring a student with special health care needs to have an individual health care plan that allows stuents to self-administer medication and to require parents to provide medical information and approval for self-medication. Requires the state department to develop guidelines for required components of a written student individual health care plan and develop a notice to be sent by districts to all parents or guardians notifying them of services and rights. Provides immunity from liability for districts and their employees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/144_20050518.htmSigned into law
Title: S.B. 144
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends Section 59-150-360. If a student feels that he will definitely not qualify to receive federal financial aid, the student may complete a simple form of minimum questions created by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education and the Commission on Higher Education to determine if the student definitely will not qualify to receive federal financial aid. If it is determined that the student definitely will not qualify to receive federal financial aid, the student is to sign a form created by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education and the Commission on Higher Education, and the student is exempted from completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3392.htm
Title: H.B. 3392
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
State Policymaking |
Issued 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the South Carolina Education Reform Council, which will examine ways to improve educational outcomes, examine problems facing the K-12 education system and identify reforms and policy recommendations in a final report to the governor no later than December 31, 2005.
http://www.scgovernor.com/uploads/executiveorders/2005-08_CreatingSouthCarolinaEducationReformCouncil.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 2005-08
Source: http://www.scgovernor.com/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Financial Literacy Instruction Act; provides a curriculum for local school boards to teach financial literacy; provides for a fund to receive public and private contributions for financial literacy instruction. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3020.htm
Title: H.B. 3020
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides that municipal and county governing bodies shall work with school districts located in their jurisdictions to identify barriers and hazards to children walking or bicycling to and from school; provides that the municipalities, counties and districts may develop a plan for the funding of improvements designed to reduce the barriers and hazards identified.
Title: H.B. 4740
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to requirements for initial certification at the advanced level.http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/4885.htm
Title: H.B. 4885
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 08/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to teacher assessments and teacher certification; changes references from student teachers to teacher candidates; removes provisional contracts from the types of contracts under which teachers may be employed; provides that continuing contract teachers must be evaluated on a continuous basis; provides when a teacher may receive diagnostic assistance. During the first annual contract year, at the discretion of the school district in which the teacher is employed, the annual contract teacher either must complete the formal evaluation process or be provided diagnostic assistance. During subsequent annual contract years, teachers must be evaluated or assisted in accordance with State Board of Education regulations. Teachers are eligible to receive diagnostic assistance during only one annual contract year. An annual contract teacher who has completed successfully the evaluation process and met the criteria set by the local board of trustees, but who has not yet satisfied all requirements established by the State Board of Education for the professional teaching certificate, is eligible for employment under a subsequent annual contract, with evaluation being either formal or informal, at the discretion of the local school district. At the discretion of the school district in which the teacher is employed, the district may employ the teacher under an annual contract or terminate the teacher's employment. If employment is terminated, the teacher may seek employment in another school district at the annual contract level. An annual contract teacher who has not completed successfully the formal evaluation process or the professional growth plan for the second time must not be employed as a classroom teacher in a public school in this State for a minimum of two years. Before reentry as an annual contract teacher, he must complete a state-approved remediation plan in areas of identified deficiencies. Upon completion of this requirement, the teacher is eligible for employment under an annual contract for one additional year to continue toward the next contract level. The provisions of this subsection granting an opportunity for reentry into the profession are available to a teacher only once. This subsection does not preclude the teacher's employment under an emergency certificate in extraordinary circumstances if the employment is approved by the State Board of Education.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/1133.htm or http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/1133_20040519.doc
Title: S.B. 1133
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the state board to implement a training program for the school district board of trustees and the district superintendent; authorizes the state board to act as a mediator of personnel issues between the district board and district superintendent; provides that the education oversight committee recruit and train citizens to form a pool for the appointment of nonvoting members to the district board. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/90.htm
Title: S.B. 90
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations relating to the Higher Education Excellence Enhancement Program.
Title: S.B. 1195
Source: StateNet |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to athlete agents and student athletes; provides for definitions, applications, registration, and renewal of registration for athlete agents, service of process upon individuals acting as athlete agents in this state, retention of certain records by an athlete agency and inspection of those records, and right of action by an educational institution against an athlete agent or former student athlete for damages caused by a violation of this chapter.
Title: S.B. 759
Source: StateNet |
Background Checks |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to an applicant for initial education certification being required to undergo a state fingerprint review; revises the time when the applicant shall undergo the review, the manner of the review and the individuals to whom this provision applies.http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/154_20040318.htm
Title: S.B. 154
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
GOVERNOR'S veto overridden by SENATE. 03/2004 |
Postsec. |
Provides that the proceeds of bonds authorized under the South Carolina Research University Infrastructure Act are appropriated and authorized to be expended for the purposes and in the manner set forth in the act; provides that the proceeds of bonds authorized pursuant to amendments to the State General Obligation Economic Development Bond Act are appropriate and authorized to be expended for the purposes set forth in the act.
Title: H.B. 3900
Source: StateNet |
Assessment |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to basic skills assessment program writing text; relates to minimum standards of student achievement.
Title: H.B. 3875
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to minimum standards for the determination of student readiness.
Title: H.B. 3871
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to requirements for certification.
Title: H.B. 3877
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 11/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to teacher credential classification. Clarifies the types of educator credentials and aligns state regulation with related federal rules. SOUTH CAROLINA REG 2504 (SN)
Title: R. 43-53
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Rule Adoption 11/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to nonprofessional and paraprofessional personnel actions to add further qualifications for paraprofessionals as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. SOUTH CAROLINA REG 2505 (SN)
Title: R. 43-209
Source: StateNet |
Assessment |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes that the standards for student achievement be a matter of public record through information and policy rather than through regulation. Relates to the Basic Skills Assessment Program, Writing Test which sets the minimum standards of student achievement and scoring criteria. SOUTH CAROLINA REG 2484 (SN)
Title: R. 43-262.6
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires high school students to receive instruction in the area of personal finance.
Title: S.B. 258
Source: StateNet |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Became Law Without Governor's Signature 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the South Carolina Higher Education Equalization Program; requires the Commission on Higher Education to enter into contracts with private, historically black colleges and universities to be used for certain purposes intended to enhance the educational opportunities of low-income, educationally and socially disadvantaged students.
Title: S.B. 203
Source: StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to intervention where quality of education in a local school district is impaired. The state department recommends the repeal of Regulation 43-301, Intervention Where Quality of Education in a Local School District is Impaired. S.C. Code Ann. Section 59-18-30 (Supp. 2001) related to intervention in impaired school districts was repealed by the Education Accountability Act of 1998. The Act provides the specifics of a new system of intervention based on school report card ratings. 24 S.C. Code Ann. Regs. 43-301 (Supp. 2001) deals with intervention in impaired districts and is no longer needed. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/3872.htm
Title: H.B. 3872
Source: StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Revises the manner in which matriculation and incidental fees may be charged by school districts including provisions to exempts students eligible for free lunches from these fees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/3274_20030325.htm
Title: H.B. 3274
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the adjutant generals office to furlough state-funded Full-time Equivalent Enrollments during fiscal year 2002-2003 under specific conditions; includes classified and unclassified employees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/320_20030327.htm
Title: S.B. 320
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution)The CSAB was administered for the last time in fall 2001. The Education Accountability Act of 1998 (EAA) required the development/selection of developmentally appropriate readiness assessments for grades one and two. The South Carolina Readiness Assessment (SCRA) fulfills the requirements of the EAA, obviating the need for the CSAB. The SCRA is identified as the Assessment Program in 24 S. C, Code Ann. Regs. 43-262 (to be codified at Supp. 2002.) Therefore, this regulation needs to be repealed. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/3870.htm
Title: H.B. 3870
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to basic skills assessment programs kindergarten objectives.
Title: H.B. 3869
Source: StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Provides that the school districts of this state may furlough district personnel to the extent necessary to avoid a year end deficit and a reduction in force; provides the terms and conditions of a furlough pursuant to this provision.
Title: S.B. 375
Source: StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Adopted 12/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a 10-day window in late August and early September during which all South Carolina public schools would have to open. Schools would have to begin no earlier than the last Monday before Labor Day and no later than the Wednesday after Labor Day. Schools that operate on a year-round calendar will be exempted from the new rule.
Title: 43-142
Source: http://www.sde.state.sc.us/ |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
2001 Report Cards web page: (http://www.myscschools.com/reportcard/)
Source: North Carolina Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
2002-2003 approved supplemental service providers:(http://www.myscschools.com/offices/cso/Title_I/supp_service.pdf)
Source: South Carolina Department of Education Web site |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to the education oversight committee, so as to add the state superintendent of education or the superintendent's designee as an ex officio nonvoting member.
Title: H.B. 3602
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Amends the charter school law. In either a new or converted charter school, a teacher teaching in the core academic areas of English/language arts, mathematics, science, or social studies must be certified in those areas or possess a baccalaureate or graduate degree in the subject he or she is hired to teach. Board of directors is elected annually. Charter must describe the targeted student population the charter school proposes to serve and provide assurance that the school does not conflict with any school district desegregation plan or order in effect. Establishes the Charter School Advisory Committee (to be established by the state board) to review charter school applications. Members are to be appointed by the state board unless otherwise indicated. Beginning with fiscal year 2003-2004 an amount equivalent to the base student cost times a 1.0 weighted pupil unit for each student enrolled in the charter school who was enrolled in another noncharter public school in the district on the one hundred thirty-fifth day of the previous school year must be provided to the district.
Title: S.B. 12
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/prever/currsess/12_20020606.htm |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
SENATE override line item veto Nos. 2. 06/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires funding equal to 1994-95 appropriation to be appropriated to the state department annually to offset any reduction suffered by districts due to a change in the distribution of employee contribution funds. Provides that in the event of an EIA revenue shortfall, lapsed funds remaining after EIA purposes must be distributed to districts for funding buildings and exempts EIA appropriations for teacher salaries and benefits from reductions to offset an official EIA revenue shortfall. Requires state board to establish a task force comprised of superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, school board members, and representatives of business and industry, including tourism-related industries no later than July 1, 2002. This task force to the extent possible is to be equally divided among proponents of existing or earlier starting dates for schools, proponents of later starting dates for schools, including proponents for dates after Labor Day, and persons who legitimately have no preferences. Also requires districts to provide advanced placement courses in all secondary schools which enroll an adequate number of academically talented students to support the course. Part II concerns public higher education: Each four-year campus of each state-supported public institution of higher learning must have equal representation on all formal and informal councils, advisory groups, committees, and task forces of the commission. Independent four-year colleges must have representation on all formal and informal committees and commissions dealing with higher education statewide issues. Also addresses instate tuition for certain students. Beginning with school year 2002-2003, the annual amount of a LIFE Scholarship for eligible resident students attending a four-year independent institution must be the cost of attendance up to a maximum of the average annual cost of tuition at the state's four-year public institutions of higher learning in the corresponding academic year. In addition, beginning with school year 2002-2003, eligible resident students attending two-year independent institutions may not receive an annual LIFE scholarship of more than the maximum cost of tuition at two-year regional public institutions for thirty credit hours a year or its equivalent."
Title: H.B. 4879
Source: http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
Health |
Act No. 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires public institutions of higher learning to notify incoming students, or their parents, of the risk of contracting Meningococcal Disease if living in on campus student housing; requires these institutions to recommend vaccinations against this disease in the institutions health and medical information provided to students and parents.
Title: H.B. 5133
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the governing body of a school board or school district to adopt a policy that permits the use of a brief opening or closing message by a student at a high school graduation exercise; provides the conditions under which this message may be delivered; authorizes the governing body of a school board or school district to adopt a policy that permits the use of a brief opening or closing message by a student at athletic or other events.
Title: H.B. 4683
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
Postsec. |
Relates to registration of sex offenders; enacts the State Campus Sexual Assault Information Act which requires institutions of higher learning to develop, publish and implement policies and practices to promote prevention, awareness and remedies for campus sexual assault; prohibits hazing.
Title: H.B. 3309
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Department of Education must keep a record of the trustees who successfully complete an orientation program within 1 year of taking office; makes provisions regarding charter schools. Provides that a trustee or county board member who fails to successfully complete the orientation is subject to suspension from office.
Title: H.B. 4419
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts and special schools to transfer up to 20 percent of revenue between programs to any instructional program with the same funding source; expends funds received from the children's education endowment fund for school facilities and fixed equipment.
Title: H.B. 4663
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
Postsec. |
Relates to definitions in regard to the South Carolina nonpublic post-secondary institution license act; relates to exclusions from the definition of nonpublic educational institution; provides for those activities, courses, or institutions that come within this exclusion; provides for when the commission on higher education may proceed with a denial or revocation and impose probation and delay a new class term of nonpublic educational institutions.
Title: H.B. 4818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines paging devices to include mobile telephones and requires school boards to adopt policies that address student possession of paging devices. Policies must be included in the district's written student conduct standards and must allow for the return of confiscated devices to the owners.
Title: H.B. 3623
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education to assist interested schools in implementing Structured Academic Mentoring Programs, designed to improve student performance and to assist these schools in developing Structured Academic Mentoring Programs that meet criteria necessary to qualiify for reading first funds established under the no Child Left Behind Act or any other available source.
Title: S.B. 834
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/wdprever/currsess/834_20020418.doc |
Student Achievement |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes it a misdemeanor to falsify or alter a transcript, a diploma, or the high school equivalency diploma known as the GED from any high school, college, university, or technical college of South Carolina, from the South Carolina Department of Education, or from any other transcript or diploma issuing entity. Also applies to anyone who uses a falsified or altered version of one of the above with the intent to defraud or mislead another person.
Title: H.B. 4455
Source: scstatehouse.net |
Governance--School Boards |
Vetoed 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for the election of school trustees in partisan instead of nonpartisan elections beginning in 2002 and for the nomination, terms, and election procedures of candidates for these offices.
Title: S.B. 933
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Board of Trustees of State University and other institutions of higher education to enter into a ground lease agreement with a private entity for providing all services necessary to the creation and operation of an on-campus student housing facility including, financing, designing, constructing, managing, operating, maintaining and related services; provides for the terms and conditions of this ground lease agreement including approval by the Budget and Control Board.
Title: S.B. 557
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Enacts the State Education Lottery Act; provides for a state lottery; creates the State Education Lottery Corporation to conduct the state lottery; provides for the corporation's board membership, duties and powers; provides for the method of contracting with vendors and retailers; provides for the sale of lottery game tickets and the distribution of prizes; provides for allocation of lottery proceeds which must be used for educational purposes and programs.
Title: S.B. 496
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the South Carolina College Investment Program with the Intent of encouraging attendance at institutions of higher learning, helping individuals plan for educational expenses and providing a program of investment trust agreements to apply distributions toward qualified higher education expenses at eligible educational institutions.
Title: H.B. 3529
Source: http://www.leginfo.state.sc.us/houseframe.html |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the exemption from the earnings limitation for retired certified teachers employed in geographic or critical academic need areas; provides that beginning June 1, 2001, any retired certified school district employee who is not a certified teacher may return to such certified employment in a school or school district which is in a critical geographic need area.
Title: H.B. 3175
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the education oversight committee's academic performance ratings and performance indicators under the education accountability act, so as to provide that the committee in all ratings rather than just in the improvement rating shall consider certain criteria.
Title: H.B. 3600
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Commission on Higher Educations Annual Report under the Education Accountability Act; provides for that information which must be submitted by two- and four-year postsecondary institutions for inclusion in the report.
Title: H.B. 3533
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) States that schools may qualify for technical assistance based on the criteria established by the Education Oversight Committee for school ratings and on the most recently available Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests scores. The funding provided for technical assistance under the Education Accountability Act may be reallocated among the programs and purposes specified in this section. The state department is required to establish criteria for reviewing and assisting schools that will be rated unsatisfactory using a tiered system with the lowest-performing schools receiving highest priority. Nnot to exceed the statewide total number of specialists stipulated by the Education Accountability Act, the highest priority school assistance shall include a year-long technical assistance team that may include a lead principal or curriculum specialist, or both. All specialists shall have a demonstrated record of success in their field and shall be entitled to the incentives and benefits of a teacher specialist. Technical assistance for below-average schools shall be provided to the extent possible in order of need. Authorizes the reallocation of technical-assistance funding under the Education Accountability Act for specified assistance to low-performing schools and school districts; provides the manner in which and criteria under which this special assistance shall be provided.
Title: H.B. 3890
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Amends Section 59-18-310(B). The statewide assessment program in the four academic areas shall include grades 3 through 8, an exit examination which is to be first administered in grade 10, and end-of-course tests for gateway courses in English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies for grades 9 through 12.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Amends Section 59-18-1930. The Education Oversight Committee shall provide for a comprehensive review of state and local professional development to include principal leadership development and teacher staff development. The review must provide an analysis of training to include what professional development is offered, how it is offered, the support given to implement skills acquired from professional development, and how the professional development enhances the academic goals outlined in district and school strategic plans. The oversight committee shall recommend better ways to provide and meet the needs for professional development, to include the use of the existing five contract days for in service. Needed revisions shall be made to state regulations to promote use of state dollars for training which meets national standards for staff development. Upon receipt of the recommendations from the comprehensive review of state and local professional development, the state department of education shall develop an accountability system to ensure that identified professional development standards are effectively implemented.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends Section 59-101-280. "Colleges and universities of this State shall emphasize teaching as a career opportunity and those institutions with teacher education programs should make the preparation of teachers a fundamental part of the institution's mission. These colleges and universities should allocate resources appropriate for support of this mission, support of professional development programs for practicing teachers and teacher education faculties to include technology training. Greater attention should be given to attracting diversity in race and ethnicity in faculties and students. Opportunities also should be developed to provide students interested in a teaching career with opportunities to tutor other students. All teacher education programs should strengthen alliances with K-12 education to increase the clinical opportunities for their students and to become more responsive to the needs of practicing teachers. Closer alliances also should be established with the business community and should integrate critical workforce skills into content and methods courses. Teacher education faculties should provide teacher candidates with a variety of effective teaching practices to ensure the state's diverse student population achieve at high levels of learning."
Title: H.B. 3534, Section 1
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
One part of this bill relates to colleges and universities emphasizing teaching as a career opportunity; provides manner in which requirements are implemented, and for content of teacher education programs.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Approved by voters 11/2000 |
P-12 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 Amends the State Constitution; deletes prohibitions on lotteries, their advertising and ticket sales; provides that lotteries may be conducted only by the State in the manner that the General Assembly provides by law, with the lottery revenues first being used to pay operating expenses and prizes and the remaining revenues credited to a separate Education Lottery Account in the State Treasury.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 10/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Adds the Chief Executive Officer of the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education as an ex-officio non-voting member of the First Steps to School Readiness Board; moves tuition prepayment program from the Budget and Control Board to the Office of State Treasurer.
Title: H.B. 4555
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Internet Safety |
Signed into law 10/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the governing boards of certain libraries including public school or higher education institution libraries that have computers which can access the Internet and are available for use by the public or students, or both, to develop use policies therefor intended to reduce the ability of the user to access web sites displaying pornography.
Title: H.B. 4426
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 09/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to education; enacts the Parent Involvement in Their Children's Education Act; establishes a framework for encouragement of increased parental involvement in the education of their children, for parental involvement training for educators and school staff, for parental responsibilities for their child's academic success, and for efforts to increase parent-teacher contacts.
Title: S.B. 1164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 08/2000 |
P-12 |
Adds 3 days for the next 2 school years and 2 more days for all school years thereafter; provides that the State Board of Education shall review and make necessary revisions to criteria for requesting out-of-field teacher permits; provides that the Board shall consider establishing for principals a recertification requirement; provides that the Board and the Department of Education shall review and refine certain professional performance dimensions in the state's teacher evaluation program.
Title: S.B. 1111
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Board of Education to acquire school buildings and other facilities relating to school district operations; allows this acquisition by means of a lease purchase agreement.
Title: H.B. 4970
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the maintenance, release, and confidentiality of juvenile records pursuant to the juvenile justice code; authorizes release of information among the Department of Juvenile Justice, solicitor's offices, the attorney general and other law enforcement agencies; authorizes the transmission of records of adjudication and pending criminal cases to a school official if the juvenile is or may be a student at the school.
Title: H.B. 4003
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to hearings of the State Board of Education, so as to permit the Board to designate a hearing officer as well as one of its members to hold hearings for the purpose of hearing matters relating to the suspension or revocation of teacher certificates; requires the hearing officer to make a recommendation to the board for final action; relates to the South Carolina Commission of Archives and History.
Title: H.B. 4616
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the eligibility requirements for a life scholarship, so as to delete requirement that students must pass all courses required for a star diploma; relates to the requirements and the promulgation of regulations for the star diploma; relates to including star diploma information in high school and higher education awareness counseling, all so as to repeal the star diploma program.
Title: H.B. 4650
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education related to graduation requirements.
Title: S.B. 1220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that public and private schools must transport 10 or more students in school or activity bus; provides that vehicles purchased before a certain date have a grace period during which they must comply with this provision; provides that during the grace period a non-complying vehicle must display a decal that states the vehicle does not meet the safety requirements of a school bus.
Title: H.B. 3300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to the principal induction program.
Title: H.B. 4483
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to textbook adoption regulation.
Title: S.B. 862
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 01/2000 |
P-12 |
Pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. §59-18-500 (Supp. 1999), beginning in the 1998–99 school year and annually thereafter, schools must begin developing Academic Plans for Students for those students lacking the skills to perform at current grade levels. The school must notify the parent(s), surrogate parent(s), or the legal guardian(s) of students in grades three through eight of the need for a conference if the student lacks the skills to perform at his or her current grade level.
Title: S.C. Code Ann. §59-18-500
Source: http://www.sde.state.sc.us/ |