On June 11, 2014, Governor Haley signed into law Act 284 (Read to Succeed). On March 11, 2024, Governor McMaster signed Act 114 (amendments to Read to Succeed) into law. The purpose of this piece of legislation is to improve literacy rates of the students in South Carolina including all reading instruction, intervention, programs, and other reading services must be aligned with the science of reading. One of the many components of Read to Succeed is third grade summer reading camp. Each district must identify third grade students who are not reading proficiently on grade level and provide them with the opportunity to attend a summer reading camp. Legislators provided funding to districts in order to hold the camps. Identified students will attend a camp four hours a day, four days a week for six weeks, or the equivalent of ninety-six instructional hours. Summer Reading Camp (SRC) requirements are extended to students in Grade 1 and Grade 2 in SY 2025-26 and SY 2026-27, respectively.

2025-26 Key Information

• The third grade reading guarantee is strengthened to require any student scoring Does Not Meet (DNM) Expectations in SY 2025-26 be retained unless a good cause exemption (GCE) is met.
• Beginning in SY 2025–26, all first-grade students who are not reading proficiently must be invited to attend summer reading camps. This requirement extends to second-grade students in SY 2026–27. 
• GCEs remain the same.
• As in previous years, districts are asked to provide Good Cause Exemption data in PowerSchool on all third-grade students who are eligible for retention. After SC READY testing ends, please ensure that the Good Cause Exemption section of the Read to Succeed PowerSchool page has been completed on every third-grade student who falls below the retention cutoff point on SC READY Reading.
• The data collection fields for pre-and-post assessments remain the same in PowerSchool to comply with the legislative requirements of Act 114. 
• If you have questions about how to submit your Summer Reading Camp data using PowerSchool, please contact the Data Collection Team at powerschool@ed.sc.gov.

Reporting Forms, Documents and Links

General Information

• SY 2025-26 Pre-Camp Survey will be available Spring 2026.
  • If your district has a large number of SRC sites, you may complete this blank Excel file instead and email it to Jonathan Faulk at jmfaulk@ed.sc.gov.
• SY 2025-26 SRC Information will be provided in Spring 2026 and include a webinar and slides.
• Blank SRC Expenditure Report (Excel file)

PowerSchool Information

• SY 2024-25 Read to Succeed PowerSchool Custom Page directions 
• School and Program Set-Up Guide (from ORDA) (PDF)
• Read to Succeed PowerSchool Page Manual (PDF)
  • Table of Contents-->South Carolina State Information-->Read to Succeed

SRC Community Partnership Grant

SRC Community Partnership Grant opportunity information.