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District seeks approval for Pathways diploma pilot for students with disabilities
Summary
Sumter presented its South Carolina Pathways Project application, an alternate diploma pathway for eligible students with disabilities with embedded CTE content and an apprenticeship component; the course will be locally approved and must be submitted to the State Department of Education.
Sumter School District staff told the Board of Trustees on May 5 that the district has been selected as one of five in the state to pilot the South Carolina Pathways Project, an alternate diploma option for students with disabilities that embeds career and technical education standards and an apprenticeship.
Office of Student Support Services representatives said the pilot focuses on students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) who are in 11th or 12th grade, take health-science courses at the career center and plan to enter the workforce after…
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