H 3629 Session 108 (1989-1990)
H 3629 General Bill, By D.M. Beasley, M.O. Alexander, Alexander, R.L. Altman,
Bailey, J.J. Bailey, K.E. Bailey, B.O. Baker, R.A. Barber, Barfield,
L.E. Bennett, Boan, G.A. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R.B. Brown, P.M. Burch,
T.M. Burriss, Carnell, R.S. Corning, Davenport, J. Faber, Fair, E.M. Fant,
T.L. Farr, J.G. Felder, T. Ferguson, S.R. Foster, Glover, B.J. Gordon,
J.V. Gregory, H.M. Hallman, J.L. Harris, Harvin, B.H. Harwell, Haskins, Hayes,
J.C. Hearn, B.L. Hendricks, J.H. Hodges, T.E. Huff, M.F. Jaskwhich,
J.C. Johnson, J.W. Johnson, R.O. Kay, Keegan, H.H. Keyserling, J.R. Klapman,
T.A. Limehouse, J.E. Lockemy, S.G. Manly, T.T. Mappus, D.E. Martin,
F.E. McBride, D.M. McEachin, J.T. McElveen, A.C. McGinnis, R.N. McLellan,
M. McLeod, D.E. McTeer, D.A. Moss, Neilson, J.H. Nesbitt, E.L. Nettles,
Phillips, Quinn, J. Rama, Rhoad, J.I. Rogers, T.F. Rogers, I.K. Rudnick, Sharpe,
P.E. Short, E.W. Simpson, J.J. Snow, E.C. Stoddard, Townsend, C.Y. Waites,
Washington, C.C. Wells, L.S. Whipper, J.M. White, J.B. Wilder, Wilkes, Wilkins,
D. Williams, J.B. Williams, D.E. Winstead, S.S. Wofford and D.A. Wright
A Bill to enact the "Target 2000-School Reform for the Next Decade" Act by
amending Section 59-5-65, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976,
relating to the power and responsibility of the State Board of Education to
establish the minimum standards for student conduct, attendance, and
achievement, so as to revise provisions requiring the State Board of Education
to implement regulations providing at least one-half day early childhood
development programs for four-year old children who have predicted significant
readiness deficiencies by making these regulations applicable to all school
districts and requiring that special efforts be made to recruit children whose
participation is difficult to obtain; to add Section 59-1-451 so as to provide
for parent education programs; to amend Section 59-20-40, as amended, relating
to determination of annual allocations under the Education Finance Act, so as
to provide that not later than the 1990-91 school year, the General Assembly
shall appropriate sufficient funds to provide compensatory and remedial
programs for all students who fail to meet the statewide minimum standards in
reading, writing, and mathematics, to provide that arts education must be
considered in the weightings used to provide for the relative cost differences
between programs, and to provide for the manner in which funds generated from
this arts weighting must be used; to add Article 5 to Chapter 65, Title 59 so
as to establish a School Drop-Out Prevention and Recovery Program; to amend
Sections 56-1-40, 56-1-50, 56-1-180, and to add Section 56-1-45 so as to
prohibit the issuing of drivers' licenses to persons under eighteen years of
age who are not high school graduates, who have not earned a G.E.D.
certificate, or who do not provide documentation that they are properly
enrolled in school and in compliance with attendance requirements, to require
the suspension of the driver's licenses of specified students under certain
conditions and to provide exceptions; to add Section 59-63-70 so as to provide
that the Commission on Higher Education shall implement certain activities
designed to encourage young people to consider post-secondary education or
training; to amend Section 59-26-20, relating to the duties of the State Board
of Education and the Commission on Higher Education, so as to provide that
beginning with the 1991-92 school year, students who are pursuing certain
college instructional or administrative curriculums shall successfully
complete training and development experiences in teaching higher order
thinking skills, and shall successfully complete training in methods of making
school improvement councils an active and effective force in improving
schools; to amend Section 59-26-30, relating to the development of teacher
examinations and evaluation instruments by the State Board of Education, so as
to further provide for these teacher examinations and evaluation instruments;
to add Section 59-31-600 so as to establish certain standards for textbook
adoptions; to amend Section 59-29-180, relating to the emphasis on higher
order problem solving skills, so as to provide that the State Department of
Education shall assist the school districts in the location and development of
materials and aids which may be used for these purposes; to add Section
59-1-450 so as to provide that when selecting certain achievement tests for
statewide testing, the State Board of Education shall select tests with a
sufficient number of items which may be rescored to evaluate the student's
higher order thinking skills; to add Section 59-30-110 so as to provide that
when test items for the Basic Skills Assessment Program are revised, the State
Board of Education shall include test items which may be rescored to evaluate
a student's higher order thinking skills; to amend Section 59-3-90, relating
to in-service training programs for teachers, so as to include higher order
thinking and problem-solving skills in these in-service training programs; to
amend Section 59-29-170, relating to programs for talented students, so as to
provide that beginning with the 1991-92 school year, all gifted and talented
students at the elementary and secondary levels who are not included in state
funded advanced placement programs must be provided the programs for talented
students contained in this Section; to add Section 59-18-15 so as to provide
for the manner in which a school which has received an incentive grant twice
during a three-year period must be given the flexibility of receiving an
exemption from the requirements of the defined minimum program and from the
reporting requirements of the Basic Skills Assessment Program; to amend
Section 59-18-20, relating to the competitive grants program for improvement
of instruction, so as to also establish a competitive schoolwide innovation
grants program; to add Section 59-18-25 so as to establish a "Center for the
Advancement of Teaching and School Leadership" at selected public colleges or
universities; to add Section 59-25-55 so as to require the South Carolina
Center for Teacher Recruitment to establish a program for the purpose of
expanding the number of high achieving minority students entering and
completing teacher education programs; to add Section 59-18-31 so as to
provide that by the 1991-92 school year, the State Board of Education in
consultation with the Select Committee shall develop additional criteria which
must be used to evaluate the quality of education in the school districts; to
add Section 59-18-11 so as to further provide for the criteria schools shall
meet in order to qualify for school incentive awards; to add Section 59-6-15
so as to establish the Business-Education Partnership for Excellence in
Education and its Business-Education Subcommittee and to provide for their
membership, duties, and functions; to amend Section 59-6-20, as amended,
relating to the duties of the Governor and State Superintendent of Education
and other officials and entities in regard to the South Carolina Education
Improvement Act of 1984, and Section 59-6-30 relating to certain assessments
and reports concerning the Education Improvement Act, so as to delete
references to certain eliminated committees, subcommittees and partnerships,
to include in those Sections the duties and responsibilities of the
Business-Education Partnership and its Business-Education Subcommittee in
regard to the Education Improvement Act, and provide for the requirements of
certain funding; to amend Section 59-24-30, relating to the participation of
school superintendents and principals in seminars for the improvement of
administrative skills and instructional leadership, so as to further provide
for these seminars; to amend Section 59-24-50, relating to the development
training programs for school administrators, so as to further provide for
these training programs; to amend Section 59-24-120, relating to
apprenticeship school principal programs, so as to further provide for these
programs; to amend Section 59-20-60, as amended, relating to spending
priorities under the Education Finance Act, the establishment of school
improvement councils, and audits and reports submitted under the Act, so as to
provide that elections of members to school improvement councils must occur
during the second week in October, and to provide that the information
forwarded to the State Department of Education shall also identify at least
one member of each school improvement council who shall receive and distribute
council-related information to other council members; to add Section 59-1-452
so as to establish a public school employees cost-savings program for the
purpose of making cash awards to school district employees for cost saving
ideas; to add Section 59-6-16 so as to require the Business-Education
Subcommittee to appoint a leadership network of representatives from the
private sector and to provide for the functions of the leadership network; to
amend Section 59-5-65, as amended, relating to certain powers and
responsibilities of the State Board of Education, so as to provide that the
State Board of Education shall work with the leadership network established by
the Business-Education Subcommittee; and to add Section 59-24-41 so as to
provide for certain practices which a principal must demonstrate to receive a
minimum satisfactory performance rating beginning with the 1991-92 school
year.
03/07/89 House Introduced and read first time HJ-7
03/07/89 House Referred to Committee on Education and Public
Works HJ-12
05/02/89 House Committee report: Favorable with amendment
Education and Public Works HJ-29
05/17/89 House Debate adjourned until Wednesday, May 24, 1989 HJ-5
05/24/89 House Debate adjourned until Tuesday, May 30, 1989 HJ-28
05/30/89 House Tabled HJ-118
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