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State superintendent details education gains and lays out budget requests including tutoring, materials and school safety funds
Summary
State Superintendent Ellen Weaver updated the K-12 finance subcommittee on NAEP and state assessment trends, described literacy and math initiatives, and requested recurring and one-time funds for instructional materials, teacher pay, tutoring and infrastructure.
State Superintendent Ellen Weaver told the K-12 finance subcommittee that South Carolina has shown encouraging direction on national and state assessments and outlined a package of budget requests aimed at sustaining that progress. Weaver said recent NAEP (national) data showed South Carolina among states that did not lose ground and that the state’s SC Ready assessments showed a 7-percentage-point gain in reading for grades 3–8 and a 2-point gain in math. She said nearly 20,000 K–3 educators have completed or are completing literacy training funded by the state’s Palmetto Literacy project.
Weaver described several funding requests. For instructional materials she requested $20 million in recurring funds for…
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