Dept. of Ed to give SC schools $84 million to help reopening efforts
Dept. of Ed to give SC schools $84 million to help reopening efforts By WIS News 10 Staff | December 14, 2020 at 7:13 PM EST - Updated December 14 at 11:16 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Education announced it will provide more than $84 million to the state’s public school districts and special schools to support reopening efforts.
The agency will send $84,264,890 in additional federal Coronavirus Relief Fund money to be used for four specific purposes: safety measures and personal protective equipment; hiring of school nurses; hiring of staff to provide one-on-one instruction and support services for struggling students; and technology equipment to support online learning, SCDE spokesman Ryan Brown said.
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Adventist Schools, COVID-19, and the Big Government Bailout: Is the Funding in Jeopardy?
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For two years, schools in the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists received scholarship funds from the state of Maryland for low-income students. The funding, administered through the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST) voucher program, helped disadvantaged families afford a private school education.
However, in 2019, the state launched an investigation into the written policies of private schools that received the allocations, eventually concluding that Adventist schools in the Chesapeake Conference were in violation of state guidelines prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.