Reference is to Printer's Date 02/28/19-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, PART IV, Enhancements to Workforce Preparation, Subpart II, Statewide Assessment Program Revisions, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. Article 1, Chapter 18, Title 59 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 59-18-130.
(A) The Superintendent of Education
shall utilize lower child to teacher ratios as a strategy to
assist chronically unsatisfactory schools.
(B) School districts
shall draw from existing funding to bear the expense of meeting
and maintaining lower ratios. Districts that can demonstrate an
inability to fully bear this expense due to financial hardship
may seek a waiver from the obligation to bear the full burden of
this expense from the State Department of education." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.