Education Focus of Adjustments in S.C. Budget — The Anderson Observer

$500M for colleges, a bigger share for traditional public schools: How SC budget funds education

The McKissick Museum on the University of South Carolina campus. (provided by USC)COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s traditional K-12 public schools will receive a bigger share of new money in the coming school year under a compromise approved this week. An adjustment in calculations ultimately shifted nearly $10 million of a $112 million sum from charter schools to traditional public schools, according to data provided by the state Department of Educa…

Education Focus of Adjustments in S.C. Budget — The Anderson Observer

Skylar Laird/S.C. Daily GazetteCOLUMBIA — South Carolina’s traditional K-12 public schools will receive a bigger share of new money in the coming school year under a compromise approved this week.An adjustment in calculations ultimately shifted nearly $10 million of a $112 million sum from charter schools to traditional public schools, according to data provided by the state Department of Education. That’s part of roughly $4.5 billion total the …