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Section 59-63-20. Age of attendance. - It is not lawful for any person who is less...
Section 59-63-30. Qualifications for attendance. - Children within the ages prescribed by Section 59-63-20 shall be...
Section 59-63-31. Additional qualifications for attendance at public school or particular public school. - (A) Children within the ages prescribed in Section 59-63-20 also...
Section 59-63-32. Requirements to enroll child in public school; affidavit; penalties for providing false information. - (A) The school district may require an adult seeking to...
Section 59-63-35. Nonresident military enrollment in South Carolina high school diploma program. - Nonresident military personnel may enroll in a program designed to...
Section 59-63-40. Discrimination on account of race, creed, color, or national origin prohibited. - (1) No person shall be refused admission into or be...
Section 59-63-45. Reimbursement for attending another school district - (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, a nonresident child...
Section 59-63-50. Fingerprinting of pupils. - Each county shall provide to every school in the county...
Section 59-63-55. Report required of certain injuries. - A report of any head or spinal injury or broken...
Section 59-63-60. School guards required to be safely attired. - No person charged with the responsibility of assisting school children...
Section 59-63-65. Class size reduction; funding; facilities. - School districts which choose to reduce class size to fifteen...
Section 59-63-70. High school student participation in independent organized sports teams. - During the season for any high school league sport except...
Section 59-63-72. Use of state funds to support interscholastic athletic associations; female wrestling teams. - A public school district supported by state funds shall not...
Section 59-63-75. Concussion protocol for student athletes. - (A) The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control,...
Section 59-63-80. Individual health care plans for students with special health care needs. - (A) As used in this section: (1) "medication" is defined...
Section 59-63-90. Notice of available health-related services and rights. - The State Department of Education shall develop a notice to...
Section 59-63-95. Epinephrine auto-injectors; obtaining, storing, dispensing, administering, and self-administering; immunity from liability. - (A) As used in this section, and unless the specific...
Section 59-63-100. Participation in interscholastic activities of public school district by home school, charter school, and Governor's school students. - (A) As used in this section: (1) "Charter school student"...
Section 59-63-110. Citation of article. - This article may be cited as the "Safe School Climate...
Section 59-63-120. Definitions. - As used in this article: (1) "Harassment, intimidation, or bullying"...
Section 59-63-130. Prohibited conduct; reports by witnesses. - (A) A person may not engage in: (1) harassment, intimidation,...
Section 59-63-140. Local school districts to adopt policies prohibiting harassment; required components; model policies by State Board of Education; bullying prevention programs. - (A) Before January 1, 2007, each local school district shall...
Section 59-63-150. Availability of civil or criminal redress; immunity of reporting school employee or volunteer. - (A) This article must not be interpreted to prevent a...
Section 59-63-210. Grounds for which trustees may expel, suspend, or transfer pupils; petition for readmission; expulsion, suspension, or transfer. - (A) Any district board of trustees may authorize or order...
Section 59-63-217. Barring enrollment of student; grounds; notice and hearing; duration of bar. - (A) In determining whether or not a student meets the...
Section 59-63-220. Suspension of pupils by administrator. - Any district board may confer upon any administrator the authority...
Section 59-63-230. Notices of suspensions; conferences with parents or guardian. - When a pupil is suspended from a class or a...
Section 59-63-235. Expulsion of student determined to have brought firearm to school. - The district board must expel for no less than one...
Section 59-63-240. Expulsion for remainder of year; hearings. - The board may expel for the remainder of the school...
Section 59-63-250. Transfer of pupils. - The board or a designated administrator may transfer a pupil...
Section 59-63-260. Corporal punishment. - The governing body of each school district may provide corporal...
Section 59-63-270. Regulation or prohibition of clubs or like activities. - Any district board of trustees may regulate, control, or prohibit...
Section 59-63-275. Student hazing prohibited; definitions. - (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Student" means a...
Section 59-63-280. "Paging device" defined; adoption of policies addressing student possession. - (A) For purposes of this section, "paging device" means a...
Section 59-63-310. Short title. - This article may be cited as the "School Crime Report...
Section 59-63-320. Reporting form. - By December 31, 1990, the State Department of Education, after...
Section 59-63-330. Quarterly and annual reports. - On forms prepared and supplied by the State Department of...
Section 59-63-333. School crime requirements to conform to federal "No Child Left Behind Act". - The State Department of Education shall conform the requirements of...
Section 59-63-335. Failure of school administrator to report criminal conduct; liability. - Failure of a school administrator to report criminal conduct as...
Section 59-63-340. Promulgation of regulations. - The State Board of Education shall promulgate regulations necessary to...
Section 59-63-350. Local law enforcement. - Local law enforcement officials are required to contact the Attorney...
Section 59-63-360. Attorney General; representation of school districts. - The Attorney General shall monitor all reported school crimes. The...
Section 59-63-370. Student's conviction or delinquency adjudication for certain offenses; notification of senior administrator at student's school; placement of information in permanent school records. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (1) When a student...
Section 59-63-380. School official reporting school-related crimes; immunity. - A person affiliated with a school in an official capacity...
Section 59-63-390. Inclusion of school crime report act summary in student handbooks. - The senior administrator of each school is responsible for including...
Section 59-63-410. Enrollment of pupils. - The first two weeks of the opening of any public...
Section 59-63-420. Effect of transfer on enrollment lists. - In the event that any enrolled pupil ceases to attend...
Section 59-63-425. Transfer upon violation of restraining order; interscholastic activity eligibility. - A high school student who is the victim of physical...
Section 59-63-430. Board shall furnish copies of relevant statutes to teachers. - The State Board of Education shall have printed and furnish...
Section 59-63-440. Violations of Sections 59-63-410 to 59-63-430. - Any person wilfully violating the provisions of Sections 59-63-410 to...
Section 59-63-450. No may shall be counted in enrollment more than once. - A child must not be counted more than once in...
Section 59-63-460. Annual reports. - The teacher or principal of every school shall keep and...
Section 59-63-470. Transfer of pupils whose enrollment threatens to disturb peace. - Whenever the principal, superintendent, or any other responsible school official...
Section 59-63-480. Attendance at schools in adjacent county. - If school children in one county reside closer to schools...
Section 59-63-485. Transfer of students from Fairfield County School District to Chester County School District; provision for payment of funds; State Superintendent of Education to settle disputes. - (A) The General Assembly finds that numerous public school students...
Section 59-63-490. Transfer to adjoining school district. - When it shall so happen that any person is so...
Section 59-63-500. Transfer without consent of school district of residence. - The trustees of any school district who knowingly permit the...
Section 59-63-510. County board of education authorized to order transfer. - When a transfer of pupils from one district to another...
Section 59-63-520. Consent required for transfer. - No child shall be transferred to an adjacent district without...
Section 59-63-530. Credit on tuition for taxes paid. - Whenever under the provisions of law any school district or...
Section 59-63-540. Determination of pupil enrollment in primary or secondary schools for purpose of distributing state funds on per pupil basis. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the distribution of...
Section 59-63-550. School attendance; boundary clarification. - (A) Upon the effective date of the amendments to Section...
Section 59-63-710. School lunch division in State Department of Education. - To continue and expand the lunch program in the public...
Section 59-63-720. County school lunch supervisors. - School lunch supervisors shall be employed on a county basis,...
Section 59-63-730. Employment and discharge of county school lunch supervisors. - County boards of education may employ or discharge county school...
Section 59-63-740. Duties of county school lunch supervisors. - School lunch supervisors shall be responsible for the supervision and...
Section 59-63-750. Compensation of school lunch supervisors; office space and equipment. - Each supervisor shall be paid a salary and three hundred...
Section 59-63-760. State's school lunch policy. - It is declared to be the policy of the State...
Section 59-63-765. School breakfast program. - If a school has at least a forty percent enrollment...
Section 59-63-770. Funds provided by State Fiscal Accountability Authority in event Federal Government resumes distribution of commodities to schools. - Should the Federal Government at any time resume the distribution...
Section 59-63-780. Inability to pay for school lunches; availability of federal funds. - For purposes of the school lunch program, the school Superintendent...
Section 59-63-785. School meal debt collections; exceptions. - (A) A public school or public school district, including a...
Section 59-63-790. School districts to implement breakfast program in each school. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 59-63-765 of the 1976 Code,...
Section 59-63-800. Waiver of school breakfast requirement. - The State Board of Education may grant a waiver of...
Section 59-63-910. Safety and security drills; guidelines. - (A) All public schools, including charter schools whose instruction is...
Section 59-63-920. School compliance and documentation. - The principal or charter school leader of each school shall...
Section 59-63-1110. Consent to search person or his effects. - Any person entering the premises of any school in this...
Section 59-63-1120. Searches by school administrators or officials with or without probable cause. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, school administrators and officials...
Section 59-63-1130. Searches by principals or their designees. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, school principals or their...
Section 59-63-1140. Strip searches prohibited. - No school administrator or official may conduct a strip search....
Section 59-63-1150. Compliance with case law; training of school administrators. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, all searches conducted...
Section 59-63-1160. Posting of notice; costs of notice to be paid by State; effect of failure to post notice. - Notice must be conspicuously posted on school property informing the...
Section 59-63-1300. Legislative intent. - The General Assembly finds that a child who does not...
Section 59-63-1310. Individual or cooperative programs; funding; sites. - School districts which choose to establish, maintain, and operate, either...
Section 59-63-1320. Referral or placement of students in alternative school programs. - Eligible alternative school programs shall be provided for, but not...
Section 59-63-1330. Discretion of school board. - Nothing in this article shall abrogate the authority of any...
Section 59-63-1340. Permissible divergence from traditional programs and schools. - Within the requirements of Section 59-1-440, alternative school programs may...
Section 59-63-1350. Eligibility for funding. - To be eligible for funding, a district or consortium must...
Section 59-63-1360. Transportation. - A school district or consortium shall determine what, if any,...
Section 59-63-1370. Teachers at alternative school programs; staff development. - Each school district or consortium shall establish procedures for ensuring...
Section 59-63-1380. Funding for alternative school programs. - A school district shall allocate to an alternative school program...
Section 59-63-1390. Regulations; annual review. - The State Board of Education shall promulgate regulations for establishment,...
Section 59-63-1400. Review; technical assistance. - The State Department of Education shall review alternative school plans...