The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- South Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- S.C. Const. art. III; joint resolution
- Issued
- 2021-04-22 Apr. 22, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-04-22 (ratified); in-person instruction required no later than Apr. 26, 2021 (read as 2021-04-22)
- End
- End of the 2021-22 school year (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 22, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Schools and child careWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- every school district in the State
- teachers (dual-modality prohibition)
- Functions reached
- IN instruction (mandatory in-person offering)
- RL remote learning (dual-modality barred)
- WF workforce (parents' schedules restored on the State's timetable)
- HR teacher assignments
- Collection
- South Carolina SC
Operative words
SECTION 1. For the 2020-2021 School Year, every school district in the State must offer five-day, in-person classroom instruction to students no later than April 26, 2021. For the 2021-2022 School Year, every school district in the State must offer five-day, in-person classroom instruction to students.... SECTION 3. (A)... school districts are prohibited from assigning a teacher to deliver instruction to students simultaneously in-person and virtually, an approach often referred to as 'dual-modality instruction', unless it is reasonable and necessary due to extreme and unavoidable circumstances
Enforcement
Statutory mandate on districts; State Department of Education oversight
Notes
Compelled a change in how every district operated in Q2 and Q3 2021; the instrument that ended remote-only public schooling in South Carolina.
Retrieval noteBill page shows: Ratified R 33 (4/22/2021); Signed by Governor (4/23/2021); Act No. 102 (7/2/2021); effective 04/22/21.