Current Status Bill Number:1219 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19960305 Primary Sponsor:Education Committee SED 04 All Sponsors:Education Committee Drafted Document Number:gjk\22427sd.96 Residing Body:House Date of Last Amendment:19960424 Subject:Kindergarten programs; full-day and half-day
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May 21, 1996
S. 1219
S. Printed 5/21/96--H.
Read the first time April 25, 1996.
TO AMEND SECTION 59-35-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING WITH SCHOOL YEAR 1996-97, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF A DISTRICT SHALL IMPLEMENT FULL-DAY AS WELL AS HALF-DAY FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS, TO PROVIDE THAT PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN MAY ELECT AT THEIR OPTION EITHER THE FULL-DAY OR HALF-DAY PROGRAM FOR THEIR CHILDREN, TO REQUIRE CERTAIN NOTICES FOR PURPOSES OF THESE KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANNER IN WHICH CHILDREN ATTENDING THESE PROGRAMS SHALL BE COUNTED FOR PURPOSES OF COMPUTING AVERAGE DAILY MEMBERSHIP; AND TO AMEND THE 1976 CODE BY ADDING SECTION 59-35-20 SO AS TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SCHOOLS TO OBTAIN WAIVERS FROM THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS THAT FULL-DAY AND HALF-DAY FIVE-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS BE ESTABLISHED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 59-35-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-35-10. The board of trustees of each school district shall establish and provide kindergartens for children within its jurisdiction. All children in the five-year-old kindergarten program must be counted in the average daily membership of any public school district when public school funds are to be apportioned to the several school districts. State aid for the five-year-old kindergarten program must be distributed through the formula provided for in the `Education Finance Act' (Act 163 of 1977).
Beginning with school year 1996-97, school districts which choose to offer an extended-day five-year-old kindergarten program shall be eligible for funding for the extended day equal to the EFA weight for a child attending a half-day five-year-old kindergarten program as funds are made available from the General Assembly. No local match is required for the extended-day funding. Local boards of trustees shall establish policies regarding priority of service in the extended-day program.
Parents of children who are eligible to attend the extended-day five-year-old program must notify the district by January thirty-first of the year of the anticipated enrollment date, except that such notice for the 1996-97 school year only must be provided by July 15, 1996. Parents moving into the district after the notification date may apply for full-day kindergarten on a space available basis."