By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | A strategy that has found success in Kentucky and elsewhere is being billed as a way for South Carolina to comply with the 2014 state Supreme Court decision to bring poor, rural schools up to standard.
If implemented, the Community School program would be operated through S.C. Department of Education, making $25 million in state grants available for poor, rural district schools and $100,000 in grants per year per school for operating at the school level. The program is focused on making schools a central focus of the community.
The S.C. Education Association (SCEA) recommended the strategy for complying with the Abbeville v. the State of South Carolina decision ...
↧