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SC Code § 59-21-355 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-355. Appropriations to Education Improvement Act building aid; allocation; transfer; trust fund.

 (A) The amount appropriated in the annual general appropriations act for the Education Improvement Act building aid, construction, and renovation, after being appropriately adjusted, must be transferred to a special trust fund established by the Comptroller General. These funds shall remain available to the school districts of the State until approved for use in accordance with Section 59-21-350.  (B) The amount appropriated in the annual general appropriations act for the Education Improvement Act building aid, construction, and renovation must be allocated to eligible school districts based on the one hundred thirty-five day count of average daily membership for the second preceding fiscal year.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 15C.
SC Code § 59-21-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-360. County plans of necessary capital improvements or tax relief.

 In order to guide the Board in passing upon requests for the use of grants, the county boards of education of the respective counties shall prepare a survey of necessary capital improvements or a plan for tax relief on school indebtedness within the operating unit. Such surveys shall show existing facilities, desirable consolidations, the new construction and new facilities necessary and desirable for the efficient operation of the public schools of the county and a plan of tax reduction in the school district or operating unit by use of such funds in retiring any outstanding indebtedness for school facilities. The Board may, in its discretion, deny all applications for the use of funds of the public school building fund from any county until such time as an acceptable and reasonably satisfactory plan, looking particularly to efficiency through consolidations of school districts, has been submitted by the county board of education and all applications from school districts or operating units shall conform to the plan of the county board of education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-278; 1952 Code Section 21-278; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-21-370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-370. Applications for funds.

 In order to avail itself of funds to its credit, a school district shall make application to the Board in such form as the Board may require, including therein a complete and full description of the purpose for which funds are to be applied, together with any information that may be required by the Board to evaluate the proposed use of funds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-279; 1952 Code Section 21-279; 1951 (47) 546; 1953 (48) 181; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-380 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-380. Remittance and disbursement of funds.

 When an application of a school district as provided in Section 59-21-370 has been approved by the Board, funds shall be remitted, as may be required from time to time, to the treasurer of the county of which the school district is a part. The county treasurer shall place the sum so received in a special fund to be known as "Public School Building Fund for School District No. - - " and shall pay out the money of such fund only on school warrants properly drawn by the authorities of the school district concerned and such money shall be expended in the same manner as provided by law for the expenditure of other school funds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-285; 1952 Code Section 21-285; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-390 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-390. Employment of architects and other personnel.

 The Board may employ architects, consultants and sufficient personnel to assist the county boards of education in the preparation of the county plans required under Section 59-21-360.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-286; 1952 Code Section 21-286; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-400 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-400. Rules and regulations.

 The Board shall prescribe reasonable rules and regulations in order to ensure that funds derived from the State public school building fund will not be used improvidently or unwisely and that the efficiency of the public school system will be increased by the expenditure of the funds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-287; 1952 Code Section 21-287; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-410. Letting of contracts.

 Any construction to be financed from funds received from the State public school building fund, pursuant to the approval of the Board, shall be on public contract, such contract to be let by the trustees of the school district, and the awarding of the necessary contracts shall be in the sole province of the school district concerned. Contracts shall be let on public advertisement thereof, and on such conditions and within such limitations as the Board may approve.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-290; 1952 Code Section 21-290; 1951 (47) 564; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-430. Use of funds within specified time.

 Any funds received pursuant to this section must be expended or contractually committed within forty-eight months of the appropriation provided for school buildings under the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984. No school district may use the funds allocated for school building purposes for operational, instructional, or any purposes other than those enumerated in Section 59-21-420. Any school district using these funds as herein prohibited is prohibited from receiving any other funds under the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 until the school district has reimbursed the Education Improvement Act of 1984 Fund for the funds allocated for school building purposes it has received pursuant to the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision G, SubPart 1, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-21-440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-440. Monthly reporting on approved expenditures and compliance with tax reduction requirement.

 The State Department of Education shall provide a monthly report to the State Board of Education, the Education Oversight Committee, The Committee on Financing Excellence, and the Education-Business Partnership on approved expenditures and compliance with the tax reduction requirement.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 9(F); 1998 Act No. 400, Section 15.
SC Code § 59-21-450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-450. Allocation of unexpended funds or operating surplus in Education Improvement Act fund to school building aid program.

 Any unexpended funds or operating surplus in the Education Improvement Act Fund in any fiscal year must be allocated to the school building aid program.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 170, Part II, Section 6; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 15I.
SC Code § 59-21-520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-520. Supervision and expansion of special education program by State Department of Education.

 The special education program shall be under the supervision of the State Department of Education. The State Superintendent of Education shall expand the services of the State Department of Education to include through the Division of Instruction a more extensive program of special education for physically and educable mentally handicapped children in the various school districts of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.1; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-530. State Superintendent authorized to employ additional personnel; salaries.

 The State Superintendent of Education may employ on the staff of the State Department of Education additional personnel, if such be necessary, of suitable professional qualifications, whose duties shall be, under the direction of the State Superintendent of Education, to help develop and supervise the special education program authorized in this article. The State Superintendent of Education is authorized to pay the salary of such additional personnel from the appropriation to the State Department of Education for the hard of hearing and speech program.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.2; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-550. Qualifications of teachers.

 No person shall be employed as a teacher in the special education program in the State unless such person holds a valid teacher's certificate issued by the State Department of Education and, in addition, possesses such special qualifications as the State Board of Education may require, or holds a comparable certificate in special education as may be developed by the State Board of Education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.4; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-560 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-560. Annual surveys and determination of eligibility for special education services by local school authorities.

 (1) County superintendents of education, with the cooperation of school boards and other school officials in the various counties of the State and with the special assistance of the county attendance teachers, shall make an annual survey to determine the number of physically and mentally handicapped children in the respective counties and school districts and shall report results of such survey to the State Superintendent of Education in such manner as the State Superintendent of Education may require.  (2) It is the responsibility of the local school authorities, with the assistance of the State Department of Education, to determine by tests and special examination what pupils are eligible for special education services. No handicapped child shall be considered eligible for special education services except upon a certified diagnosis of a defect by competent and appropriate professional authorities acceptable to the State Department of Education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.5; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-570. Districts may operate programs singly or jointly; eligibility of district for State aid.

 A school district may operate a special education program for children eligible for such services under the provisions of this article and rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, either as a district or jointly with other districts.  When proper facilities have been provided and when application has been made to and approved by the State Department of Education, the district will become eligible for State aid as provided in this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.6; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-580 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-580. Rules, regulations, and policies of State Board of Education.

 The State Board of Education is directed to establish rules, regulations and policies:  (1) For screening, classifying and determining, by use of standardization tests and such psychological and medical services as may be necessary, by qualified personnel, the eligibility of pupils to receive the benefits under the provisions of this article;  (2) For determining certification requirements and special qualifications of teachers;  (3) For outlining the manner and procedure by which applications for aid and plans for operation may be made and approved; and  (4) For other matters not specified herein when necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.7; 1954 (48) 1479; 1958 (50) 1877.
SC Code § 59-21-590 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-590. Confidentiality of data on handicapped children.

 Names of handicapped children served under this article shall be submitted to the State Department of Education only according to the policies and procedures prescribed by the United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare established to protect the confidentiality of data on handicapped children receiving education or related services at public expense.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 692, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-21-600 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-600. Distribution of funds for educational services to mentally handicapped pupils.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 59-21-540, and in order to insure adequate educational services for trainable mentally handicapped pupils and profoundly mentally handicapped pupils in South Carolina school districts, the State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Education Oversight Committee, through the State Department of Education shall develop a Regulation for distribution of funds appropriated by the General Assembly for this purpose.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision A, SubPart 6, Section 2; 1998 Act No. 400, Section 15.
SC Code § 59-21-710 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-710. State aid authorized for employment of school psychologists.

 The State Superintendent of Education is hereby authorized and directed to pay State aid to any county or school district in South Carolina employing a school psychologist under conditions as set forth in this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.21; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-720 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-720. Psychologists shall have certificates.

 All school psychologists employed by the counties or school districts shall have a valid certificate issued by the State Board of Education according to regulations established by the Board.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.22; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-730 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-730. Payment of State aid; amount.

 State aid for school psychologists shall be paid from the appropriation for State aid for teachers salaries. The amount of State aid for each psychologist employed shall be determined by the application of the same laws, rules and regulations as pertain to the existing State scale for paying teachers' salaries.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.23; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-740 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-740. Eligibility for State aid; amount of State aid for which school may otherwise qualify not affected.

 Any county or school district shall be eligible for State aid for a school psychologist employed for each five thousand pupils enrolled; provided, that each county shall be eligible for State aid for at least one school psychologist. Provided, further, that any district or county may combine with any other school district or county in order to meet the minimum enrollment requirement and for the purpose of securing the services of a school psychologist. When school districts or counties are acting jointly in this respect, State aid shall be paid to the operating units in proportion to the enrollment in these units; provided, further, payments of State aid under the provisions of this article shall have no bearing on the amount of State aid for which a school may otherwise qualify regardless of the fact that pupils with whom the psychologist works may already have been counted for other purposes of State aid.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.24; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-750 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-750. Psychologist employed by State Department of Education.

 The State Superintendent of Education shall employ a school psychologist in the State Department of Education in order to properly supervise the work of school psychologists employed by the counties and school districts and also to be available to help counties and school districts unable to employ a school psychologist.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.25; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-760 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-760. Rules and regulations.

 The State Board of Education may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.26; 1962 (52) 1896.
SC Code § 59-21-1010 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-1010. Disposition and allocation of revenues; special vote required to amend or repeal this section.

 (A) The revenue derived from Sections 12-36-2620(1) and 12-36-2630(1) must be remitted to the State Treasurer to be credited to the state public school building fund for the purposes provided for in Article 3 of Chapter 21 of Title 59 and any sum above that amount must be placed to the credit of the general fund of the State and must be used for school purposes only.  (B) The revenue derived from Sections 12-36-2620(2), 12-36-2630(2), and 12-36-2640(2) must be deposited by the State Treasurer in the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 Fund as a fund separate and distinct from the general fund of the State. All unappropriated money in this fund and earning on investments from this fund must remain part of the separate fund and must not be deposited in the general fund except as provided for in this section. Money from this fund may be spent only for elementary and secondary school purposes. Any change in the management or use of this fund for other than elementary and secondary education is permitted only by a two-thirds vote provided in this section.  (C)(1) Upon implementation of the provisions of this section by law, the law may not be amended or repealed except by special vote provided in this section.  (2) For purposes of this subsection, a special vote means an affirmative two-thirds vote of the total membership of the Senate and an affirmative two-thirds vote of the total membership of the House of Representatives.  All monies appropriated from the Education Improvement Act of 1984 Fund which are disbursed by the State Department of Education must be appropriated in one division of the section in the annual general appropriations act making appropriations for the State Department of Education.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Section 74C.
SC Code § 59-21-1020 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-1020. Department of Education to monitor and audit disbursements; reversion of unexpended appropriations.

 The State Department of Education shall carefully monitor and audit the disbursement of monies from the South Carolina Education Improvement Act Fund. Any line item appropriation not fully expended for any program under the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 reverts to the fund.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Section 74C.
SC Code § 59-21-1030 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-1030. Level of financial effort per pupil required of each school district; application for waiver.

 Except as provided in this section, school district boards of trustees or any other appropriate governing body of a school district shall maintain at least the level of per pupil financial effort established as provided in fiscal year 1983-84. Beginning in 1985-86, local financial effort for noncapital programs must be adjusted for an inflation factor estimated by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.  Thereafter, school district boards of trustees or other governing bodies of school districts shall maintain at least the level of financial effort per pupil for noncapital programs as in the prior year adjusted for an inflation factor estimated by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. The county auditor shall establish a millage rate so that the level of financial effort per pupil for noncapital programs adjusted for an inflation factor estimated by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office is maintained as a minimum effort. No school district which has not complied with this section may receive funds from the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 Fund. School district boards of trustees may apply for a waiver to the State Board of Education from the requirements of this section if:  (1) the district has experienced a loss in revenue because of reduction in assessed valuation of property or has had a significant increase in one hundred thirty-five average daily membership;  (2) the district has experienced insignificant growth in revenue collections from the previous year;  (3) the district has demonstrated for one year that it has achieved operating efficiencies and all education requirements are being met;  (4) a midyear revenue shortfall results in a reduction of funds appropriated in accordance with Chapter 20 of Title 59 (The Education Finance Act). A decline in the measured academic achievement of the students must immediately cause the State Board of Education to void all waivers provided under this section and make the district ineligible to apply for any waivers under this section for two consecutive years. If the decline in student achievement occurs, the district shall revert to the minimum effort requirement, adjusted for the prior years inflation factor. Waiver (4) does not apply to funds needed to meet the Minimum Salary Schedule for teachers in South Carolina. A school district is eligible for an annual renewal of the waiver provided the district meets one of the above criteria and meets the minimum effort requirement of the previous year and at least the minimum required effort of the Education Finance Act.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Section 74C.
SC Code § 59-21-1040 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-1040. Compensation and employer contributions; funding.

 The compensation and employer contributions of any new personnel employed for the purpose of implementing specific provisions of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 must be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose by the General Assembly from funds derived from increased revenue provided for in the Education Improvement Act of 1984 Fund. This may not be construed to preclude any school district from providing additional compensation and employee contributions for the purpose of implementing specific provisions of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984. School district employees are not entitled to receive any across-the-board pay increases or employer contributions provided for other state employees in the annual general appropriation act unless otherwise authorized by the General Assembly in that act.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Section 74C.