The Office of Student and Community Engagement (OSCE) requests additional contact information from your district and schools. Specifically, please provide the name and contact information for your District Volunteer Coordinator and School Volunteer Coordinators. Ensure that the individual responsible for updating contact information in the DEIMS database receives this memo and adds both District and School Coordinator names and contact information into the DEIMS database.

Districts meeting SCDE criteria for eLearning may use up to five eLearning days to make up for short-term disruptions to in-person instruction (e.g., power outages, water main breaks). An eLearning day is used on the specific day schools would otherwise have had to close due to unforeseen emergencies or when a make-up day is normally used.

SCDE’s Office of Government Relations and Policy closely monitors legislation impacting public education. Below is a summary of legislation that passed this year. As a reminder, this year was the first year of a two-year session. Any bills that did not pass this year will remain in the same position when the legislature reconvenes in January.

The 2024 –25 Discipline, Truancy and Chronic Absenteeism data are now posted in the Accountability Data Transfer (ADT) System/Report Portal for review. It is critical that each district reviews, corrects, and confirms the accuracy of the data by June 16, 2025, at 9:00 am, as these data will be used for state and federal reporting.

The Office of Special Education Services (OSES) and the Office of Information Technology recently made changes to special education courses and codes in an effort to improve coding practices and to promote consistency throughout the State.

All budget amendments and/or new budgets for all grants expenditures that will be incurred on or before June 30, 2025, must be entered into GAPS no later than Monday, August 4, 2025, unless an earlier deadline is referenced on the GAN.

The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) announces that the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Stronger Connections Discretionary Subgrant is now available online. Approximately $5,500,000 in funding will be distributed on a competitive basis and the deadline to apply is June 13, 2025.

The South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Career Readiness, in collaboration with the STEM Center at The Citadel, the national Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and SC CSTA, is proud to host CSPDWeek 2025, a free week-long professional development event for K–12 educators and school counselors.

As a follow-up to the May 9, 2023, Personal Finance one-half (0.5) unit Graduation Requirement Memorandum, the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) is
providing updated guidance to ensure students experience rigorous, personalized
instruction in personal finance.

In 2023, the South Carolina General Assembly passed “Gavin’s Law,” which criminalized sexual extortion and required South Carolina public schools to educate and notify students of the provision of the act (including adequate notice to students, guardians, the public, and school personnel of the change in law).

In 2020, the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) suspended collection of fees associated with hazardous transportation costs under pandemic-related emergency authorization. This memo serves as notice that SCDE will resume collecting these hazardous transportation fees, pursuant to state law, for FY 2025-26.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-447 (2004) requires the State Board of Education to establish detailed mandatory test security procedures by regulation.