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PCSD board approves contract renewal, school amendment, revocation and budget in voice votes
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Summary
The South Carolina Public Charter School District Board on June 12 approved multiple staff-recommended actions in voice votes — including a law‑firm contract renewal, a school’s educational-model amendment, a charter revocation and the district budgets — allowing staff to proceed with implementation steps.
The South Carolina Public Charter School District Board on June 12 approved a series of staff-recommended actions in voice votes, including a contract renewal for outside counsel, an amendment request from Spartanburg Preparatory School, revocation of Sea Islands Heritage Academy’s charter, acceptance of Green Charter School Taylors’ voluntary relinquishment, authorization for the superintendent to join litigation related to the PowerSchool data breach, adoption of a closure protocol and final approval of the fiscal-year budgets.
Board members voted by voice on each item; staff recorded no recorded oppositions during the roll calls. The actions were presented by PCSD staff during the meeting and carried with unanimous voice votes as indicated on the record.
Among the items approved, the board accepted staff’s recommendation to renew the district’s engagement with the law firm Harold Martin & Peace with a 10% increase to the flat fee, approved Spartanburg Preparatory School’s amendment to move from a single-gender model to fully coeducational classes beginning in 2025–26, and affirmed staff’s recommendation to revoke the charter contract for Sea Islands Heritage Academy effective June 30, 2025, citing the school’s board absence at the scheduled revocation hearing. The board also accepted the voluntary relinquishment of Green Charter School Taylors, approved staff to contract with outside counsel to join a national case arising from the December 2024 PowerSchool data breach, and adopted a revised school closure protocol required under the Charter Act. The board gave final (third-reading) approval to the district’s fiscal-year budgets, which include adding FTEs and returning some IT and PowerSchool support in-house.
Votes were taken by voice; for items where a roll call was taken at the start of the meeting, eight trustees were recorded present. Motions typically were made and seconded from the floor; where specific movers and seconders were identified in the transcript those names are included in the detailed action records below.
The board also held its annual officer elections, electing the slate nominated from the floor by voice vote.
The board’s approvals will let staff proceed with contract and implementation steps identified in each item, including winding down the charters being relinquished or revoked and executing attorney-client contracts for the PowerSchool-related litigation.
