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District outlines policy changes under Act 114, including summer reading camp and retention rules

School District 5 Board of Trustees · December 9, 2024
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Summary

Chief of academics presented grouped policy revisions in response to South Carolina's Read to Succeed Act (Act 114): mandatory interventions, MAP cut score use, summer reading camp requirements, and clarified good-cause exemptions for third-grade retention.

The board reviewed grouped policy revisions required by the state Read to Succeed law (Act 114), including updates to ELA instruction, summer school, promotion/retention and state assessments. Chief of Academics Tina McCaskill said the policies implement the law’s expectations for identifying and remediating students who do not meet the state cut…

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