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(The Center Square) – South Carolina’s 79 public school districts have received, or anticipate collecting soon, a combined $2.94 billion in federal pandemic assistance with local school boards accorded wide discretion in how to spend the “unprecedented” plug of one-time money.
State legislators have little authority to intervene in how boards spend the direct allocations to districts, nor can the federal money – three times what South Carolina schools collectively received the previous year – be used to supplant state education funding.
The South Carolina Department of Education (DOE) has requested districts submit plans on how they will spend the money, to ensure the allocations are legal, with emphasis on academic recovery for students that fell behind because of the pandemic’s disruption.
At least 20% of the federal relief money must be funneled into programs to help students catch-up academically. Only 30% of the state’s third-through-eighth graders are projected to meet grade-level proficiency in math and English this year.
State Education Superintendent Molly Spearman has required school boards seek public input for spending the money, urging parents and taxpayers to attend board meetings and, “Ask questions.”
Including two districts operated by the state and the 79 public school districts, more than $3.3 billion in federal pandemic aid for K-12 education has been earmarked for South Carolina schools in three funding packages.
The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) component of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act approved in March 2020 delivered $197.4 million to state schools. According to the DOE, districts had spent about 70% of the CARES Act money by early July, meaning about $60 million remained in district coffers.
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But by early July, South Carolina districts had only spent 1% of the $846.4 million they were allocated in the $900 billion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, known as “CARES II,” adopted by Congress in December.
In addition, South Carolina schools have not touched the $1.9 billion they will receive from the American Rescue Plan, the third $1.9 trillion pandemic assistance package adopted earlier this year.South Carolina also significantly boosting state education spending. The state’s $31 billion Fiscal Year 2022 […]
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