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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-97. Evaluation system for continuing contract teachers.

The teacher's evaluation system for continuing contract teachers, mandated by Act 187 of 1979, must be fully implemented in all school districts by school year 1984-85. A formal evaluation of continuing contract teachers must take place not less than every three years. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the governing bodies of the school districts of this State from establishing higher standards for the evaluation of teachers.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, SubPart 4, Section 4.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-100. Circumstances under which educational governing body of county shall have powers and duties of school trustees.

Where the county educational system operates as a unit, the county board of education or the educational governing body of the county shall have all the powers and duties of school trustees.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-230.1; 1955 (49) 83.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-110. Rule-making power.

The boards of trustees of the several school districts 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 21-230.2; 1956 (49) 1670.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-117. District employee background checks.

(A) An individual hired by a local school district board of trustees to serve in any capacity in a public school in this State shall undergo a name-based South Carolina criminal record search conducted by the local school district using records maintained by the State Law Enforcement Division pursuant to regulations contained in subarticle 1, Article 3, Chapter 73 of the Code of Regulations. By August 1, 2010, a school district board of trustees shall adopt a written policy that specifies the required criminal record search as well as how the information received from the search impacts hiring decisions. The district policy must stipulate whether the district assumes the cost of the criminal record search or that the applicant assumes the cost. The policy must include, at a minimum, a prohibition of hiring individuals convicted of violent crimes as defined in Section 16-1-60 and hiring recommendations relative to felony convictions and relevant just-cause examples provided in Section 59-25-160. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, working with the Department of Education, shall provide training to appropriate school district personnel regarding appropriate use of the information provided in criminal record searches.
(B) Each school district of this State shall 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. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, working with the Department of Education, shall provide training to appropriate district personnel on the appropriate uses of the database. By August 1, 2010, the district board of trustees shall adopt a written policy that specifies the sex offender registry check as well as how information received from the search impacts hiring decisions. The policy must include, at a minimum, a prohibition of hiring individuals required to register as sex offenders pursuant to Section 23-3-430.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 168, Section 1, eff May 11, 2010.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-120. Rules and regulations governing use of school buildings.

Each district board of trustees may adopt rules and regulations which are not inconsistent with State law or the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education governing the use of school buildings for purposes other than normal school activity.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-230.3; 1974 (58) 1927.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-125. Leasing school property for particular purposes.

Each district board of trustees may lease any school property for a rental which the board considers reasonable or permit the free use of school property for:
(1) civic or public purposes; or
(2) the operation of a school-age child care program for children aged five through fourteen years that operates before or after the school day, or both, and during periods when school is not in session, if the property is not needed for school purposes. Under this section the board may enter into a long-term lease with a corporation, community service organization, or other governmental entity, if the corporation, organization, or other governmental entity will use the property to be leased for civic or public purposes or for a school-age child care program. However, if the property subject to a long-term lease is being paid for from money in the district's debt service fund, then all proceeds from the long-term lease must be deposited in that school district's debt service fund so long as the property has not been paid for.
HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 189, Part II, Section 43 Sub 7; 1992 Act No. 315, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-130. Acquisition of supplies and equipment.

Each district board of trustees shall have the power to purchase, rent, lease, or otherwise acquire the supplies and equipment necessary for the operation of the public schools and other school facilities of the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-230.4; 1974 (58) 1927.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-140. Rules and regulations governing use of equipment.

Each district board of trustees may adopt rules and regulations which are not inconsistent with State law or the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education governing the use of school equipment for purposes other than normal school activity.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-230.5; 1974 (58) 1927.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-160. Gifts to school district; bond as prerequisite to receipt.

The trustees of any school district of this State may take and hold in trust for their particular school district any property granted, devised, given or bequeathed to such school district and apply the same in the interest of the schools of their district in such manner as in their judgment seems most conducive to the welfare of the schools when not otherwise directed by the terms of the grant, devise, gift or bequest. Before such trustees shall assume control of any grant, devise, gift or bequest, they shall give a bond, to be approved by the county board of education of the county in which such grant, devise, gift or bequest is made, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in them in respect to such property, which bond shall be deposited with the clerk of the court of the county.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-231; 1952 Code Section 21-231; 1942 Code Section 5392; 1932 Code Section 5278; Civ. C. '22 Section 2538; Civ. C. '12 Section 1702; Civ. C. '02 Section 1178; 1896 (21) 150; 1917 (30) 384; 1942 (42) 1444.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-170. Acceptance and holding of property by trustees.

The district board of trustees of any school district may accept and hold in trust for its particular school district any property granted, devised, given or bequeathed to the district and use it in such manner as in its judgment seems most conducive to the welfare of the schools when not otherwise directed by the terms of the grant, devise, gift or bequest.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-231.1; 1974 (58) 1937.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-180. Purchase of lands by trustees.

Whenever a board of school trustees deems it expedient to acquire lands for the erection thereon of any public schoolhouse or building or making any addition to or extension of any public schoolhouse or building already established or for public school playgrounds or other use for such public schools, it may purchase the lots or parcels of land necessary for such purposes and the fee simple title of such land shall be vested in such board of school trustees from the day of the sale.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-232; 1952 Code Section 21-232; 1942 Code Section 5360; 1932 Code Section 5385; Civ. C. '22 Section 4751; 1920 (31) 782; 1924 (33) 1130; 1930 (36) 1108.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-190. Purchase of land by trustees; reassignment or disposal of land purchased with state funds.

Whenever a board of trustees deems it expedient to acquire lands for public school purposes with any State funds, it may purchase, subject to the prior written approval of the State Board of Education, the lots or parcels of land necessary for such purchase. The reassignment or disposal of such parcels of land purchased after 1952 with any State funds shall be subject to the prior written approval of the State Board of Education.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-232.1; 1973 (58) 635.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-200. Condemnation of lands by trustees.

In case any owner of any lot or parcel of land refuses to sell it or demands what may be considered by the authorities an unreasonable price, the authorities may proceed to condemn the land pursuant to the Eminent Domain Procedure Act (Chapter 2 of Title 28).
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-233; 1952 Code Section 21-233; 1942 Code Section 5361; 1932 Code Section 5386; 1930 (36) 1108; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 51.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-250. Sale or lease of school property by trustees.

The school trustees of the several school districts may sell or lease school property, real or personal, in their school district whenever they deem it expedient to do so and apply the proceeds of any such sale or lease to the school fund of the district. The consent of the county board of education or, in those counties which do not have a county board of education, the governing body of the county, shall be first obtained by the trustees desiring to make any such sale or lease. The board of trustees, within thirty days after making any such sale or lease, shall send a report thereof to the county board of education or, in those counties which do not have a county board of education, the governing body of the county, setting forth the terms and amount of the sale or lease.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-238; 1952 Code Section 21-238; 1942 Code Section 5345; 1932 Code Section 5371; Civ. C. '22 Section 2618; Civ. C. '12 Section 1755; Civ. C. '02 Section 1213; 1896 (21) 165; 1955 (49) 87; 1972 (57) 2126; 1973 (58) 397.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-260. Trustees authorized to insure motor vehicles.

The board of trustees of any school district is hereby authorized to secure such insurance as it deems necessary relating to the operation of motor vehicles owned by the district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-238.1; 1959 (51) 362.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-270. Trustees may employ medical, technical, and clerical personnel.

Every district board of trustees may employ physicians, dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, other medical specialists, optometrists, nurses, dental hygienists, and other technical and clerical personnel as may be needed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-238.2; 1973 (58) 267.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-280. Trustees may be members of School Boards Association.

Any member of the board of trustees of any school district in this State may become a member of the South Carolina School Boards Association, and the fees and dues necessary to acquire and maintain membership in this organization shall be paid by the school district.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-238.3; 1974 (58) 1926.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-290. Contracts in excess of apportioned funds void.

All contracts which boards of trustees may make in excess of the funds apportioned to their districts shall be void.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-239; 1952 Code Section 21-239; 1942 Code Section 5374; 1932 Code Section 5401; Civ. C. '22 Section 2645; Civ. C. '12 Section 1777; Civ. C. '02 Section 1228; 1900 (21) 366; 1929 (36) 100.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-300. Propriety of trustee's receiving pay as teacher.

It shall be unlawful for a school trustee to receive pay as a teacher of a free public school that is located in the same school district of which such person is a trustee.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-240; 1952 Code Section 21-240; 1942 Code Section 5357; 1932 Code Section 5383; Civ. C. '22 Section 2629; Civ. C. '12 Section 1760; Civ. C. '02 Section 1217; 1896 (21) 165; 1973 (58) 214; 1977 Act No. 66, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-310. Exercising office of trustee after termination of office.

If a trustee of any school district shall attempt to act or discharge the duties of such office after he has been removed or after his successor shall have qualified, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, after conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred and one dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-241; 1952 Code Section 21-241; 1942 Code Section 1568; 1932 Code Section 1568; Cr. C. '22 Section 516; Cr. C. '12 Section 585; Cr. C. '02 Section 428; G.S. 1024; R.S. 341; 1878 (16) 584.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-320. Trustees may cross bridge or ferry free of charge.

The school trustees shall be allowed to cross all bridges or ferries free of charge when they are traveling on official business.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-242; 1952 Code Section 21-242; 1942 Code Section 5358; 1932 Code Sections 5384, 5596; Civ. C. '22 Sections 2616, 2630; Civ. C. '12 Sections 1753, 1761; Civ. C. '02 Sections 1211, 1218; Cr. C. '22 Section 452; 1896 (21) 165; 1920 (31) 1046; 1923 (33) 180; 1937 (40) 75.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-330. Annual report of trustees of certain special and graded school districts.

The trustees of special and graded school districts created by acts of the General Assembly shall make annual reports to the State Superintendent of Education in such form and at such time as he shall prescribe.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-243; 1952 Code Section 21-243; 1942 Code Section 5391; 1932 Code Section 5419; Civ. C. '22 Section 2682; Civ. C. '12 Section 1792; Civ. C. '02 Section 1238; 1896 (22) 150; 1897 (22) 514.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-340. Child development programs for three and four-year-old children.

The board of trustees of each school district may establish and provide for the education of children who will attain the age of four on or before September first of the applicable school year in child development programs. The board of trustees of school districts having programs serving three and four-year-olds on the date of enactment of this section may continue to serve three-year-old children.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision A, SubPart 3, Section 2(E); 1993 Act No. 135, Section 8; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 29A.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-510. Right to appeal to county board of education; petition.

Subject to the provisions of Section 59-19-90, any parent or person standing in loco parentis to any child of school age, the representative of any school or any person aggrieved by any decision of the board of trustees of any school district in any matter of local controversy in reference to the construction or administration of the school laws or the placement of any pupil in any school within the district, shall have the right to appeal the matter in controversy to the county board of education by serving a written petition upon the chairman of the board of trustees, the chairman of the county board of education and the adverse party within ten days from the date upon which a copy of the order or directive of the board of trustees was delivered to him by mail or otherwise. The petition shall be verified and shall include a statement of the facts and issues involved in the matter in controversy.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-520. Appeal in counties where functions of trustees and board of education have been combined.

In counties where the functions of the boards of trustees and those of the county board of education have been combined, the appeal provided in Section 59-19-510 shall lie to the county board of education from its original action disposing of the matter in controversy before hearing.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.1; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-530. Hearing; separate hearing for each child in controversies involving children of school age.

The parties shall be entitled to a prompt and fair hearing by the county board of education, which shall try the matter de novo and in accordance with its rules and regulations. Where individual children of school age are involved in the matter in controversy, the case of each child shall be heard and disposed of separately.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.2; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-540. Hearing; appearance of parties and evidence.

At any hearing provided for in Section 59-19-530, the parties may appear in person or through an attorney licensed to practice in South Carolina and may submit such testimony, under oath, or other evidence as may be pertinent to the matter in controversy.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.3; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-550. Order of board of education; service on parties.

After the parties have been heard, the county board of education shall issue a written order disposing of the matter in controversy, a copy of which shall be mailed to each of the parties at interest.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.4; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-560. Appeal to court of common pleas.

Any party aggrieved by the order of the county board of education shall have the right to appeal to the court of common pleas of the county by serving a written verified petition upon the chairman of the county board of education and upon the adverse party within ten days from the date upon which copy of the order of the county board of education was mailed to the petitioner. The parties so served shall have twenty days from the date of service, exclusive of the date of service, within which to make return to the petition or to otherwise plead, and the matter in controversy shall be tried by the circuit judge, de novo, with or without reference to a master or special referee.
The county board of education shall certify to the court the record of the proceedings upon which its order was based, and the record so certified shall be admitted as evidence and considered by the court, along with such additional evidence as the parties may desire to present. The court shall consider and dispose of the cause as other equity cases are tried and disposed of, and all parties at interest shall have such rights and remedies, including the right of appeal, as are now provided by law in such cases.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.5; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-570. Appeal shall not act as supersedeas.

Until the matter in controversy has been finally disposed of, no appeal shall act as a supersedeas or suspension of the order of the board having original jurisdiction of the cause.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.6; 1952 Code Section 21-103; 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; 1956 (49) 1655.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 19 - School Trustees › Section 59-19-580. Appeal from decision to operate or not to operate school.

Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the decision of any board of trustees of any school district to operate or not to operate a school or schools shall not be subject to the appellate procedures specified in this article. Any such decision may be appealed directly to the court of common pleas of the county in which any school to be operated or not to be operated is located; provided, however, that questions considered by the court upon such appeal shall be limited to questions of law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-247.7; 1962 (52) 2145.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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."
2023 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.
2023 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).
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.