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SC school finance proposal gets initial approval By SEANNA ADCOX Associated Press

A bill designed to simplify South Carolina's decades-old funding formulas for public education and stop automatic pay raises for teachers advanced Tuesday in the Legislature.

A House Ways and Means panel unanimously approved the bill to update the state's 1977 Education Finance Act, still the state's basis for student funding.

After years of talking about an overhaul, without making any headway, legislators seem ready to seriously tackle it this year. The state's $830 million budget shortfall is prompting more lawmakers to listen, said House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper, R-Piedmont.

"It's so complicated," said Cooper, the bill's sponsor. "It's been tacked onto for 33 years."

The bill, drafted after months of meetings, would add more money for students who are poor or are learning English, but reduce money for others. Districts could see small changes in t...See More
Bummed out On 2/02/11, had enough wrote: > SC school finance proposal gets initial approval > By SEANNA ADCOX > Associated Press > > > > A bill designed to simplify South Carolina's decades-old > funding formulas for public education and stop automatic > pay raises for teachers advanced Tuesday in the Legislature. > > > >...See More
Feb 5, 2011
sc teach Good points. My admin already does this. If they don't like a teacher, they put the teacher back on SAFE T, and give them low evaluations, and there is nothing they can do about it. Plus what about schools where the parents actually enforce behavior and academics at home. I work in Richland county 2 at a title 1 school, and the majority of my stude...See More
Feb 6, 2011
Had Enough "The state's first Republican schools superintendent in 12 years wants to move teacher and principal salaries into a mandatory pay- for-performance system. A proposal moving through the House, and backed by GOP legislative leaders, could direct Zais to develop such a plan by Dec. 1, for implementation beginning in 2012-13."

Zais also point...See More
Feb 8, 2011


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