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House Amendment 30
H 3759 - Session 123 (2019-2020)
SC Career Opportunity and Access for All
Reference is to Printer's Date 02/28/19-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Section 59-18-1620(A), as contained in PART VI, Help for Students in Underperforming Schools, SECTION 45, by deleting the subsection in its entirety and inserting:
/ (A) When a school
receives an overall rating of unsatisfactory for three out of
four years, the school is considered to be 'chronically
underperforming' and one of the following must occur:
(1)
the school will be reconstituted immediately after the end
of the school year in which the annual report is published;
and:
(a)
the State Superintendent shall make all personnel
decisions for the reconstituted school and shall have the
authority to determine whether to terminate the principal,
faculty, and staff;
(b)
the State Superintendent of Education shall hire the new
principal and staff for the reconstituted school if necessary;
and
(c)
the department shall contract with a public or nonprofit
entity that has a proven record of success in working with
underperforming schools and districts or reconstitute the school
under the Transformation District. Should the department choose
to contract with a public or nonprofit entity, the entity shall
use research-based strategies to assist schools with their
operations and oversee the administration of the school until
the overall rating of the school improves; provided, if the
overall rating does not improve within three years then the
school must be must be governed by the South Carolina
Transformation School District, and all state, local and federal
funds generated by the students must follow the students to the
South Carolina Transformation School District; or
(2)
the school must be closed and its students must be
transferred to higher-performing schools in the district./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.