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SC Code § 59-20-23 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-23. Index of taxpaying ability calculation.

 When an appeal of the assessed value of property assessed pursuant to Section 12-43-220(a) extends for more than two years and the amount in dispute is more than thirty percent of the total of assessed value of property in the school district in which the property under appeal is located, the index of taxpaying ability for the school district must be calculated using the value asserted by the taxpayer in the appeal.  If the final settlement of the appeal provides for an assessed value greater than the value asserted in the taxpayer's appeal, the local school district, within twelve months, must remit to the general fund of the State any additional funds received from the State Department of Education due to the utilization of the value of the facility asserted in the taxpayer's appeal.  Any funds remitted to the general fund of the State pursuant to this section are considered current fiscal year funds appropriated under the Education Finance Act and must be included in the next distribution of such funds to school districts.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 13, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-20-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-25. Index of taxpaying ability as applied to area in which a tax increment financing plan is in effect.

 For the purposes of computing the 'index of taxpaying ability' pursuant to item (3) of Section 3 of Act 163 of 1977 (South Carolina Education Finance Act) for any area in which tax increment financing plan is in effect the value to be used shall be the original assessed value plus any portion of the captured assessed value which is distributed among taxing authorities pursuant to Section 31-8-120.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 164, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-20-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-30. Declaration of legislative purpose.

 It is the purpose of the General Assembly in this chapter:  (1) To guarantee to each student in the public schools of South Carolina the availability of at least minimum educational programs and services appropriate to his needs, and which are substantially equal to those available to other students with similar needs and reasonably comparable from a program standpoint to those students of all other classifications, notwithstanding geographic differences and varying local economic factors.  (2) To encourage school district initiative in seeking more effective and efficient means of achieving the goals of the various programs.  (3) To establish a procedure for the distribution of a specified portion of the state education funds so as to ensure that the funds are provided on the basis of need to the extent set forth by this chapter in order to guarantee a minimum level of funding for each weighted pupil unit in the State.  (4) To make it possible for each school district to provide the defined minimum program within approximately five years from July 2, 1978, and to do so with an equal local tax effort.  (5) To establish a reasonable balance between the portion of the funds to be paid by the State and the portion of the funds to be paid by the districts collectively in support of the foundation program. For the initial stage of this program the proportionate state share of the funds for this program shall be approximately seventy percent statewide and the remainder of the program shall be financed from local revenue sources.  (6) To require each local school district to contribute its fair share to the required local effort, which is to be in direct proportion to its relative taxpaying ability.  (7) To ensure that tax dollars spent in public schools are utilized effectively and to ensure that adequate programs serve all children of the State.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 163, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-20-41 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-41. Inclusion of children admitted to residential institutions of the Department of Mental Health.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law:  All school districts providing educational services to children admitted or committed to residential institutions of the Department of Mental Health are authorized to count children admitted or committed to residential institutions of the Department of Mental Health from the first day of residency in such institutions, provided, that the first day is within the particular district's school year. The inclusion of these children is for the purpose of participation in the districts' educational programs for handicapped children supported under the Education Finance Act of South Carolina.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 482, Section 2A.
SC Code § 59-20-55 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-55. Proficiency requirements for teachers.

 Beginning July 1, 1986, and thereafter, employment may be provided only to teachers who demonstrate minimum knowledge proficiency by meeting one of the criteria outlined in Section 59-20-50(4)(b). The criteria do not have to be met by teachers having twenty-five years or more of teaching service as of the effective date of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 in order for them to be employed.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, SubPart 2, Section 1A.
SC Code § 59-20-65 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-65. Furnishing by State Board of Education of services and training activities to support school improvement councils.

 The State Board of Education, acting through the existing School Council Assistance Project at the University of South Carolina, shall provide services and training activities to support school improvement councils and their efforts in preparing an annual school improvement report as required in this section.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision E, SubPart 2, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-20-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-70. Exemption from statutory provisions relating to fiscal accountability of state agencies, departments, and institutions.

 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, any school district which complies with the provisions of Section 59-20-60 is exempted from the provisions of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 1 relating to the fiscal accountability of state agencies, departments and institutions.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 163, Section 7.
SC Code § 59-20-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-80. School budgets must be made public; itemization of salaries.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each school board of trustees in this State shall annually make available to the general public its budget for that year, which budget shall include an itemized list of the average salaries paid to the superintendents, supervisors, administrators, principals, consultants, counselors and teachers employed by the district. No state aid shall be given to any school district whose board of trustees fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 163, Section 7A.
SC Code § 59-20-95 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 20 - Education Finance Act Of 1977|Section 59-20-95. Fiscal practices of local education agencies of concern, actions authorized.

 (A) For purposes of this section, "LEA" means a state agency that is also a Local Education Agency.  (B) The State Auditor shall adopt the statewide program created by the State Department of Education in Section 59-20-90, and shall use it to identify fiscal practices and budgetary conditions that, if uncorrected, could compromise the fiscal integrity of a state agency that is also an LEA, and advise the LEA to take appropriate corrective actions.  (C)(1) This program must replicate the procedures of Section 59-20-90, except that:  (a) the State Auditor shall act with respect to an LEA as the department acts toward a school district; and  (b) in a declaration of fiscal caution, the State Auditor may waive the provisions of Section 59-20-90(D)(3), (4), (5), and (6) and immediately direct the department to assume emergency management of the LEA, which may continue until the State Auditor releases the LEA from the declaration of fiscal caution; and  (c) in a declaration of fiscal emergency, the State Auditor immediately shall direct the department to assume emergency management of the LEA, which must continue until the State Auditor releases the LEA from the declaration of fiscal emergency.  (2) The department assumes full management of an LEA at the moment that written notice is sent from the State Auditor to the LEA by certified mail, return receipt requested.  HISTORY: 2017 Act No. 23 (H.3221), Section 2.A, eff May 9, 2017.  Editor's Note  2017 Act No. 23, Section 2.B, provides as follows:  "(B) The State Auditor shall promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this section."
SC Code § 59-21-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-10. "School" defined.

 For the purpose of this article, a "school" is defined as a division of the school system consisting of pupils composed of one or more grade groups, organized as one unit with one or more teachers to give instructions of a defined type, and housed in a school plant of one or more buildings. More than one school may be housed in one school plant, as in the case when elementary and secondary programs are housed in the same plant.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-251; 1952 Code Section 21-251; 1942 Code Section 5424; 1933 (38) 567; 1935 (39) 243; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-20. Appropriation for teacher salaries based on term of 190 days.

 The General Assembly shall make sufficient appropriation to pay state aid to salaries of all school teachers in the public schools on the basis and for the length of one hundred ninety days in the elementary and secondary schools in the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-252; 1952 Code Section 21-252; 1942 Code Section 5423; 1933 (38) 567; 1935 (39) 467; 1937 (40) 623; 1947 (45) 306; 1967 (55) 719; 1977 Act No. 219 Pt II Section 7; 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, SubPart 4, Section 1(b).
SC Code § 59-21-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-40. Partial participation of small schools.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 59-21-30, if any one- or two-teacher school fails to maintain the minimum schedule therein provided, it shall participate in the benefits of Section 59-21-20 in the proportion that the enrollment and average daily attendance maintained bear to said minimum schedule for such school.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-254; 1952 Code Section 21-254; 1942 Code Section 5423; 1933 (38) 567; 1935 (39) 467; 1937 (40) 623; 1947 (45) 306.
SC Code § 59-21-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-50. Participation of small schools which cannot be consolidated.

 No one-teacher school shall be deprived of the benefits of this chapter because such school fails to meet the minimum requirements of enrollment and average daily attendance when it is impracticable to consolidate the school with some other school because of mountains, rivers, islands, swamps or other natural causes. The board of education of the county in which the school is located shall be the competent judge in such case.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-255; 1952 Code Section 21-255; 1942 Code Section 5423; 1933 (38) 567; 1935 (39) 467; 1937 (40) 623; 1947 (45) 306.
SC Code § 59-21-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-60. Part-time teachers not covered.

 No person who teaches daily less than four periods of forty-five minutes each shall receive any pay under the provisions of Section 59-21-20, except the superintendent of a school system employing more than ten teachers.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-256; 1952 Code Section 21-256; 1942 Code Section 5423; 1933 (38) 567; 1935 (39) 467; 1937 (40) 623; 1947 (45) 306.
SC Code § 59-21-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-90. Computation of years of experience of teachers.

 In computing the years of experience of teachers under the schedule in Section 59-21-80 each full regular scholastic year taught by a teacher in the public schools of the State shall be counted as one year's experience.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-259; 1952 Code Section 21-259; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-21-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-100. Effect of time spent in graduate school on computation of years of teaching experience.

 In computing the years of experience for teachers, each scholastic year a teacher spends doing graduate work shall be counted as one year's teaching experience. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any teacher who is employed full time while attending graduate school nor to any person who has not accumulated at least one year of teaching experience.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-259.1; 1973 (58) 369.
SC Code § 59-21-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-110. Allowance for supervision and overhead.

 In addition to the State aid for teachers' salaries, each school district or operating unit shall be allowed for supervision and overhead seven and 50/100 dollars a school year for each pupil, which allowance shall be based on enrollment. These funds shall be disbursed monthly along with the disbursement of funds for teachers' salaries.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-260; 1952 Code Section 21-260; 1951 (47) 546; 1953 (48) 181; 1968 (55) 2855.
SC Code § 59-21-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-120. Allowance for maintenance and operation.

 In addition to all other State aid, each school district or operating unit shall be allowed, for maintenance and operation, ten dollars a school year for each pupil. Such allowance shall be based on enrollment. These funds shall be disbursed monthly along with the disbursement of funds for teachers' salaries.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-261; 1955 (49) 190, 329; 1966 (54) 2424.
SC Code § 59-21-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-130. Disbursement to counties.

 The State Superintendent of Education shall present vouchers monthly to the Comptroller General who shall issue his warrants to the State Treasurer payable to the county treasurers of the respective counties for such amount of state school aid as may be on hand, available for and applicable to the payment for state school aid due the respective counties, under the provisions hereof.  HISTORY: 1933 Code (38) 567; 1942 Code Section 5428; 1952 Code Section 21-263; 1962 Code Section 21-263; 1982 Act No. 417, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-21-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-140. State Fiscal Accountability Authority may borrow in anticipation of revenue.

 The State Fiscal Accountability Authority may borrow in each year in anticipation of the receipt of revenues provided for school aid such sum or sums as may be necessary to pay any portion of the amounts appropriated herein and becoming due to the respective counties of the State prior to the collection thereof. Such notes shall be issued in such form and manner as the Board may elect and, when issued, are hereby declared to be current obligations of the State. But in lieu of borrowing as provided herein the Comptroller General may issue his warrant against the general fund in the treasury when it appears that sufficient funds are available therein, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same as provided in Section 59-21-130. Such withdrawals from the general fund, if made, shall constitute a loan to the school aid fund from the general fund, the same to be repaid when revenues provided for school aid are collected. The proceeds of such loan or loans shall be paid to the respective counties for school aid to the respective counties as provided in Section 59-21-130.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-264; 1952 Code Section 21-264; 1942 Code Section 5429; 1934 (38) 1221.
SC Code § 59-21-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-150. Reimbursement of district principals, teachers, and instructional supervisors for cost of college courses in field of specialization.

 Beginning in fiscal year 1985-86, all school district and state agency school employees required by the State Board of Education to hold State Board of Education certification are eligible for tuition reimbursement at a rate consistent with that charged at public colleges and universities every two years for successful completion of a three-hour credit course in their field of specialization at a South Carolina public or private college, so long as they work in that field in a South Carolina public school or state agency school for the succeeding year. The reimbursement must be provided by the State from funds appropriated to the State Department of Education.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, SubPart 3, Section 5; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 82.
SC Code § 59-21-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-160. State appropriations for school district employer contributions; calculation of allocations to individual school districts.

 Beginning with appropriations for school year 1998-99, state funds appropriated by the General Assembly for school district employer contributions must be allocated to individual school districts based on the Education Finance Act formula. State appropriations for school district employer contributions for school years before 1998-99 must be allocated using the EFA formula and the weighted pupil method in the following percentages:  School Year Weighted Pupil Method EFA Formula 1994-95 forty percent sixty percent 1995-96 thirty percent seventy percent 1996-97 twenty percent eighty percent 1997-98 ten percent ninety percent.   HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 94.
SC Code § 59-21-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-310. Definitions.

 For the purpose of this article (a) the term "capital improvement" shall mean the cost of constructing, improving, equipping, renovating and repairing school buildings or other school facilities or the cost of the acquisition of land whereon to construct or establish school facilities; and (b) "Board" shall mean the State Board of Education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-271; 1952 Code Section 21-271; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-320. Annual grant for financing needed capital improvements.

 In order to assist school districts in financing needed capital improvements, the General Assembly shall annually allocate to the Board a sum equivalent to thirty dollars multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in grades one through twelve of the public schools and, effective beginning in Fiscal Year 1988-89, fifteen dollars multiplied by the number of students enrolled in public kindergarten programs. The calculation must be based on the one hundred thirty-five day count of the average daily membership during the school year ending in the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins. In no year may the amount allocated be less than the total sum required to meet principal and interest payments becoming due to that fiscal year on state school bonds.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-272; 1952 Code Section 21-272; 1951 (47) 546; 1953 (48) 181; 1967 (55) 719; 1969 (56) 444; 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision G, SubPart 1, Section 2; 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 7.
SC Code § 59-21-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-330. Obligation to make grants subordinate to State school bonds.

 The obligation of the State to make sums available to school districts as provided under Section 59-21-320 shall be subordinate to the pledge made to secure the State school bonds authorized under Article 5 of Chapter 71 of this Title and the sinking fund created for their retirement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-273; 1952 Code Section 21-273; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-340. Application of grants.

 The Board shall annually apply sums allocated under Section 59-21-320 in the following order: (a) There shall first be reserved and set aside such amount as may be necessary to pay principal and interest payments becoming due that year on State school bonds. (b) The balance remaining each year after deducting the amount reserved in (a) above shall be credited on the books of the Board to the several school districts in the State, apportioned in the ratio that the enrollment of each school district bears to the enrollment of the State as a whole. Provided, that of the funds available in 1967-68 for allocation to school districts under the provisions of Sections 59-21-340 and 59-71-550, as amended in 1967 Act No. 485, there shall first be apportioned among the several school districts sufficient funds to have made available to all districts at least ninety percent of the funds available to them under the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 21 of Title 59, as now constituted. Remaining funds for 1967-68 shall be apportioned in accordance with the provisions of Sections 59-21-340 and 59-71-550, as amended.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-274; 1952 Code Section 21-274; 1951 (47) 546; 1953 (48) 181; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 59-21-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 21 - State Aid For Schools|Section 59-21-350. Purposes for which grants may be used.

 The sums credited by the Board to each school district, under the provisions of Sections 59-21-340 and 59-71-550, shall remain available to school districts until requisitioned by them for purposes approved by the Board. Such funds shall be available for the following purposes only and in the following order of priority: (a) To be applied on the financing of capital improvements approved by the Board; (b) to pay principal and interest of school district indebtedness represented by bonds or notes issued before July 1, 1951 for any capital improvement or bonds or notes issued on or after July 1, 1951 for capital improvements approved by the Board.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-275; 1952 Code Section 21-275; 1951 (47) 546; 1967 (55) 719.