Bill 4720

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                       4720
Type of Legislation:               Concurrent Resolution CR
Introducing Body:                  House
Introduced Date:                   19960307
Primary Sponsor:                   Cooper
All Sponsors:                      Cooper, Wilder, J. Hines,
                                   G. Brown, Inabinett, Clyburn,
                                   Breeland, Canty, Mason, McCraw,
                                   Stuart, Stille, Jennings, White,
                                   L. Whipper, Lloyd, Anderson, Koon,
                                   Chamblee, Keegan, Carnell, Scott,
                                   Gamble, Baxley, Fulmer, J. Young,
                                   Riser, Herdklotz, Tripp, Felder,
                                   Sandifer, Lanford, Trotter, Simrill,
                                   R. Smith, Hodges, Kinon, Rhoad,
                                   McKay, Robinson, Haskins, Easterday,
                                   Lee, McTeer, Vaughn, Whatley and
                                   Phillips 
Drafted Document Number:           gjk\22432sd.96
Residing Body:                     House
Current Committee:                 Education and Public Works
                                   Committee 21 HEPW
Subject:                           Adult Education

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
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House   19960307  Introduced, referred to Committee        21 HEPW

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

TO EXPRESS SUPPORT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WHICH OVERSEES ADULT EDUCATION IN THIS STATE.

Whereas, adult education programs in South Carolina have grown to include more than seventy thousand students in public school adult education; and

Whereas, one in six high school graduates in South Carolina is an adult; and

Whereas, adult education operates in all ninety-four school districts and has two hundred thirty-seven full-time and over sixteen hundred part-time instructors; and

Whereas, adult education in this State has the ninth highest enrollment among the fifty states; and

Whereas, adult education is a cost-effective program that has helped increase the educational level of its citizens from 30.6 percent with a high school diploma in 1980 to 42.5 percent in 1990; and

Whereas, the members of the General Assembly, by this resolution, publicly declare and express their strong support for adult education in South Carolina and to the Department of Education which oversees such programs. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the General Assembly hereby express their strong support for adult education in South Carolina, for the citizens of this State enrolled in adult education classes, and for the Department of Education which oversees these programs.

Be it further resolved that the members of the General Assembly express their belief and recommendation that the responsibility for adult education should remain in the State Department of Education where it currently resides.