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SC Code § 59-15-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 15 - County Boards Of Education|Section 59-15-10. Appointment; qualifications; terms.

 There shall be a county board of education in each county which, except as otherwise expressly provided, shall be composed of seven members, six of whom shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Senator and at least one half of the members of the House of Representatives from the county, who shall serve terms of four years each commencing on May first in each year preceding the year of a presidential election. Any vacancies on the county boards of education shall be filled in the same manner for the unexpired terms. The county superintendents of education shall be ex officio members of the county boards of education in those counties in which the county superintendent of education is elected by the people and in counties in which the county superintendent of education is not elected by the people the seventh member shall be appointed in the same manner and for the same term as the other six members. No employee of a public school system other than the county superintendent of education shall be eligible to serve as a member of a county board of education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-101; 1952 Code Section 21-101; 1951 (47) 546; 1953 (48) 3.
SC Code § 59-15-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 15 - County Boards Of Education|Section 59-15-20. Board constitutes advisory body to county superintendent.

 The county board of education shall constitute an advisory body with whom the county superintendent of education shall have the right to consult when he is in doubt as to his official duty.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-102; 1952 Code Section 21-102; 1942 Code Section 5317; 1932 Code Section 5348; Civ. C. '22 Section 2597; Civ. C. '12 Section 1736; Civ. C. '02 Section 1203; 1896 (22) 161.
SC Code § 59-15-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 15 - County Boards Of Education|Section 59-15-30. Quorum of board.

 A majority of the members of the county board of education shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the board.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-103; 1952 Code Section 21-101.1; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-15-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 15 - County Boards Of Education|Section 59-15-40. Rule-making power of board.

 County boards of education may prescribe such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the statute law of this State as they may deem necessary or advisable to the proper disposition of matters brought before them. This rule-making power shall specifically include the right, at the discretion of the board, to designate one or more of its members to conduct any hearing in connection with any responsibility of the board and to make a report on this hearing to the board for its determination.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-105; 1956 (49) 1670.
SC Code § 59-15-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 15 - County Boards Of Education|Section 59-15-50. Oath of board members and trustees.

 Each member of a county board of education or board of trustees shall take the oath prescribed in the Constitution of South Carolina.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-106; 1973 (58) 635.
SC Code § 59-16-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-10. Legislative findings.

 (A) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) through the use of technology, South Carolina can create educational opportunities for the students of this State that may not exist without such technology; and  (2) using technology to deliver instruction can provide effective alternatives for credit recovery, meeting graduation requirements, resolving scheduling conflicts, delivering curriculum content when there is a shortage of certified personnel, providing a more flexible and individualized instructional pace, and offering low-incidence courses.  (B) It is the purpose of the General Assembly, in this chapter to establish the South Carolina Virtual School Program to ensure consistent high quality education for the students of South Carolina utilizing technology-delivered courses.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-15 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-15. Virtual education program; eligibility; grades; exams; computer equipment and internet access.

 (A) The State Board of Education is authorized to establish a virtual education program to provide South Carolina students access to distance, online, or virtual learning courses offered for an initial unit of credit. Additionally, the virtual education program shall 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 of Education. The virtual education program shall not award a South Carolina High School diploma.  (B) A public, private, or homeschool student residing in South Carolina who is twenty-one years of age or younger must be eligible to enroll in the virtual education program. A private school or home school student enrolled in the virtual education program must not be entitled to any rights, privileges, courses, activities, or services available to a public school student other than receiving an appropriate unit of credit for a completed course.  (C) Local school districts shall accurately transcribe a student's final numeric grade to the student's permanent record and transcript. Home school students and private school students shall receive a certified grade report indicating date, course, and final numeric grade from the virtual education program or an entity approved by the State Board of Education.  (D) Students enrolled in an online course for a unit of credit must be administered final exams and appropriate state assessments in a proctored environment.  (E) It is not the responsibility of the school, district, or state to provide home computer equipment and Internet access for enrollment in courses provided by the virtual education program. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit a school or district from providing home computer equipment or Internet access to students enrolled in the virtual education program.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007; 2013 Act No. 84, Section 1, eff June 13, 2013.  Effect of Amendment  The 2013 amendment substituted "virtual education program" for "South Carolina Virtual School Program" throughout, in subsection (B) substituted "must be eligible" for "shall be eligible", deleted former subsection (C) relating to online initial credits, and redesignated the subsections accordingly.
SC Code § 59-16-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-20. Housing and management of program; standards for courses; instructor certification and training.

 (A) The South Carolina Virtual School Program shall be housed in and managed by the State Department of Education. The department may contract for distance learning courses, develop courses, or approve courses submitted by entities.  (B) Each course offered for a unit of credit shall be reviewed for correlation with the state adopted academic standards prior to being offered.  (C) All distance, online, or virtual learning courses offered for a unit of credit must be aligned with the state adopted academic standards, include appropriate course materials, and be approved by the State Department of Education.  (D) Instructors must hold a valid teaching certificate in each content area being taught or receive approval from the State Department of Education to teach the course.  (E) All virtual schoolteachers must receive appropriate preservice and in-service training pertaining to the organization, classroom management, technical aspects, monitoring of student assessment, and other pertinent training from the State Department of Education.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-30. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:  (1) "Distance learning" means the acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance. Distance learning includes online and virtual courses.  (2) "Online learning" means learning delivered by web-based or internet-based technologies.  (3) "Proctored" means directly monitored by an adult authorized by the South Carolina Virtual School Program.  (4) "Virtual classroom" means the online learning space where students and instructors interact.  (5) "School year" means the one hundred eighty days of student instruction required pursuant to Section 59-1-420 and student instruction received as part of a summer school program.  (6) "Credit recovery" means self-paced, semester-long courses that target learning in areas of greatest weakness, allowing nontraditional or at-risk students to rapidly complete courses, recover credits, and progress to graduation.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-40. Guidelines and regulations.

 The State Board of Education shall develop guidelines and promulgate regulations to include, but may not be limited to, the following:  (1) procedures and criteria to be used for the selection of online courses to be offered for a unit of credit;  (2) qualifications and registration requirements of students who may enroll in online courses to include provisions outlining the enrollment of students that have been expelled from school;  (3) procedures for private and homeschool students to enroll in courses offered;  (4) teacher qualifications and the student-to-teacher ratio for online courses;  (5) appropriateness and provisions for charging tuition and fees;  (6) procedures for establishing uniform evaluation of student progress and awarding of the final grade;  (7) process for maintaining student records and reporting and recording grades on the student's transcript;  (8) procedures and requirements for employment, supervision, and evaluation of teachers;  (9) procedures and requirements for supervision, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation of enrolled students; and  (10) student expectations.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-50. Adult education program pilot; recommendations to General Assembly.

 Through the use of an online pilot program, the State Department of Education shall examine the feasibility of providing services of the South Carolina Virtual School Program to students enrolled in adult education programs and shall make recommendations to the General Assembly no later than January 1, 2008.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-60. Annual report.

 Annually, the State Board of Education shall provide the General Assembly a report that shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:  (1) list of courses offered through the virtual school;  (2) number of local school districts and number of the district students participating in the virtual school;  (3) private schools and number of the private school students participating in the virtual school;  (4) number of homeschool students participating in the virtual school;  (5) success rates for students by courses enrolled in the virtual school;  (6) number of students who dropped a course and reasons for dropping;  (7) expenditures made for the virtual school; and  (8) number of students unable to enroll because of space limitation.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-70. Review of student records by Education Oversight Committee.

 At the end of each semester, the State Department of Education shall provide student records, including course grades and performance on state assessments, to the Education Oversight Committee. The Education Oversight Committee shall monitor the impact of credits earned in the virtual school, on the school and district ratings, with particular attention to performance on end-of-course examinations and graduation rates.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-16-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 16 - South Carolina Virtual School Program|Section 59-16-80. Implementation contingency.

 The implementation of the provisions contained in this chapter are contingent upon the appropriation of funds by the General Assembly.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 26, Section 1, eff May 15, 2007.
SC Code § 59-17-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-10. School districts as bodies politic and corporate.

 Every school district is and shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of __________ (a descriptive name may be designated by the county board of education or legislative act) School District No __________ (such number may be designated by the county board of education or legislative act), of __________ County (the name of the county in which the district is situated), the State of South Carolina. In that name it may sue and be sued and be capable of contracting and being contracted with to the extent of its school fund and holding such real and personal estate as it may have or come into possession of, by will or otherwise, or as is authorized by law to be purchased, all of which shall be used exclusively for school purposes.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-111; 1952 Code Section 21-111; 1942 Code Section 5319; 1938 (40) 429; 1950 (46) 2504.
SC Code § 59-17-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-20. Alteration or division of school districts.

 Unless otherwise expressly provided, the school districts of the various counties shall not be altered or divided except:  (1) By act of the General Assembly relating to one or more counties; or  (2) By authorization of the county boards of education under the following conditions:  (a) With the written approval of the Senator and the entire house legislative delegation from the county involved;  (b) Upon a written petition, signed by at least four fifths of the qualified electors embraced within the limits of each of the school districts involved, which shall state plainly to the county board of education the action petitioned and shall also bear the signed certificate of the members of the county board of registration that the number of electors who signed the petition represent at least four fifths of the qualified electors embraced within the limits of each of the school districts involved; or  (c) Upon the written petition, signed by at least one third of the qualified electors embraced within the limits of each of the school districts involved, which shall state primarily the action petitioned and shall bear the signed certificate of the members of the county board of registration that the number of the electors who signed the petition represent at least one third of the qualified electors embraced within the limits of each of the school districts involved; if such consolidation be approved favorably by a majority of the qualified electors of each of the school districts involved at an election called by the county board of education for the purpose.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-112; 1952 Code Section 21-112; 1942 Code Section 5319; 1938 (40) 429; 1950 (46) 2504; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-17-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-30. Effect of alteration or division of school districts on bonds or payment for buildings of existing districts.

 When any school district laid out under Section 59-17-20 shall embrace cities or towns already organized into special school districts in which graded school buildings have been erected by the issue of bonds, by special taxation or by donation, all the territory included in such school district shall bear its just proportion of any tax that may be levied to liquidate such bonds or support the public schools therein.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-113; 1952 Code Section 21-113; 1942 Code Section 5319; 1938 (40) 429; 1950 (46) 2504.
SC Code § 59-17-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-40. Alteration or division of school districts; consolidated district for entire county and district formed from two or more counties.

 All of the school districts of any county may be consolidated into a single school district embracing the entire county in the manner provided by Section 59-17-20 for the alteration or division of school districts, and, whenever territory embraced in two or more counties is proposed to be formed into one school district, such district may be formed by the joint action of the boards of education of the respective counties as provided in Section 59-17-20 for the formation of school districts in a county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-114; 1952 Code Section 21-114; 1942 Code Section 5319; 1938 (40) 429; 1950 (46) 2504.
SC Code § 59-17-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-50. Consolidation of schools and school districts by county board of education.

 A county board of education may consolidate schools and school districts, in whole or in part, whenever, in its judgment, such consolidation will promote the best interests of the cause of education in the county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-114.1; 1952 Code Section 21-114.1; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-17-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-60. Filing order of consolidation.

 When two or more districts are consolidated under the provisions of Section 59-17-50, the county board of education shall file a copy of the order of consolidation in the office of the clerk of court and with the State Board of Education. Such filing shall complete the consolidation of such districts for all intents and purposes.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-114.2; 1952 Code Section 21-114.2; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-17-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-70. Effect of consolidation.

 Upon consolidation of any two or more school districts, all property, real and personal, and all assets of the districts forming the consolidated school district shall become the property of the consolidated district and all liabilities of the consolidating districts shall become the obligations of such consolidated district. Each such consolidated district shall be a body politic and corporate and its board of trustees shall have such powers as are provided by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-114.3; 1952 Code Section 21-114.3; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-17-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-80. Dissolution of school districts in adjoining counties.

 Any school district formed of parts of two or more counties under the provisions of Section 59-17-40 may be dissolved in the same manner as that by which it may have been formed, as provided in said section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-116; 1952 Code Section 21-116; 1942 Code Section 5320; 1932 Code Section 5353; Civ. C. '22 Section 2600; Civ. C. '12 Section 1739; 1910 (26) 694.
SC Code § 59-17-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-90. Purposes for which school districts may combine.

 Any two or more school districts in this State may agree to provide special services, make purchases, share equipment, develop curriculum, and interchange pupils or educational services.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-117; 1973 (58) 650.
SC Code § 59-17-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-100. School districts to provide Department of Education with copies of audit reports.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each school district of the State shall provide the State Department of Education each year with two copies of its audit report by December first following the close of the fiscal year.  HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 450; 1997 Act No. 108, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-17-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-110. Duty of school districts to defend actions or proceedings against their employees.

 In the event that any employee of any school district in South Carolina is prosecuted in any action, civil or criminal, or special proceeding in the courts of this State, or of the United States, by reason of any act done or omitted in good faith in the course of his employment, it is made the duty of the school district, when requested in writing by any such public school employee, to appear and defend the action or proceeding in his behalf.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 48.
SC Code § 59-17-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-120. Reissue of school bonds subject to debt service budget and debt limit.

 Bonds issued by a school district under the bonded indebtedness limitation of Article X, Section 15(7)(a) of the South Carolina Constitution and called before the maturity date only may be reissued if the amount required to service the reissuance and to pay off the called bonds does not:  (1) increase by more than eight percent in any one year the amount of the district's budget needed to service the original bonded indebtedness; or  (2) exceed the debt limit of the district.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 55, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-17-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 17 - School Districts|Section 59-17-130. American Sign Language course; development of teacher qualifications and academic standards; satisfaction of foreign language credit requirement.

 (A) The board of trustees of a school district may grant credit as a world language to a pupil who satisfactorily has completed a high school course in American Sign Language. Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, American Sign Language awarded as a world language credit may be used to satisfy the foreign language credit requirement specified in Section 59-39-100.  (B) The State Department of Education shall determine the required qualifications for teachers of American Sign Language and shall develop academic standards to be approved by the State Board of Education.  (C) Nothing in this section may be construed to require South Carolina four-year colleges or universities to accept courses in American Sign Language to meet the foreign language admissions requirements set by the institution.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 344, Section 1; 2006 Act No. 326, Section 1, eff June 1, 2006.  Effect of Amendment  The 2006 amendment rewrote this section.