Dear Mom and Dad,     It has now been three months since I left for college.  I am sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before.  I will bring you up to date but before you read on you had better sit down.  The reason for the delay in our marriage is that Roger has a minor infection which prevents us from passing our premarital blood tests, and I carelessly caught it from him.  This will soon clear up with the penicillin injections I am taking daily. Now that I have brought you up to date I want to tell you that Okay?   I am getting along pretty well now.  The skull fracture and concussion I got when I jumped out of my apartment window when it there was no fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was not in the hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have caught fire after my arrival here is pretty well healed.  I only spent two weeks in the hospital and now I can see almost normally and only syphillis, and there is no divorced man in my life.  However, I am getting a "D" in Art and an "F" in Biology and I wanted you to see these marks in the proper perspective. get these sick headaches once a day.  Fortunately the fire and my jump were witnessed by Roger an attendant at the gas station, and he was the one who called the fire department.  He also visited me in the hospital, and since I had nowhere to live he was kind enough to invite Your loving daughter, me to share his apartment with him.  He is a very fine man, and we are planning to get married.  We haven't set the date yet, but it will be Jane before my pregnancy begins to show. His divorce is final now, and he shares custody of his 3 children.

the proper perspective

SCASBO bills, other unanimous OK to advance H.5042 amend the fiscal accountability law ok’d H.4718 – part-time food service personnel opt out of state retirement county boundary project H.4948 - amendment

legislative priority #1 education funding reform scsba supports legislation to reform the state’s education funding structure

no appetite for reform modest growth projections for revenue despite legislative tax and funding study committees election year

legislation filed Senate bill 829 – impact of act 388 study committee. Senate bill 830 – no new programs or mandates until EFA fully funded

heaven or hell

state budget underway House to deliberate Ways and Means plan next week Senate Finance Committee: March 20 – 22 Senate floor: April 3 – 12 Bill returned to House, conference committee: April 17 – 26 Final budget: May 1 – 3 Vetoes: May 8 - 10

ways & means plan highlights $32M EFA maintain current BSC – should be $3,018 2% teacher raise (half funded EFA formula) increase 0-2 starting teacher pay $30,000 to $32,000 $8M school bus purchase, lease $11M technical assistance $ pension and health premium increase

provisos of note SNAP, TANF, Homeless, Medicaid poverty weighting $450,000 to Youth Learning Institute at Clemson for 4 middle school pilot programs to teach students how to become self-regulated, self directed learners Virtual make-up days by EOC and SCETV $4.5M to EOC for “partnership programs”

advocacy actions Mandates 2% teacher increase but does not fully fund it ($ distributed on EFA) Need to increase BSC Greater funding flexibility

legislative priority #2 retired teacher salary cap SCSBA supports legislation to eliminate the salary cap for retired classroom teachers

no movement cannot single out certain group for exemptions state board authority to expand critical needs subjects, areas? budget proviso run around contract teacher run around

legislation filed new special senate finance retirement committee Senate bill 822 & House bill 4930 exempts certified educators, police officers from earnings cap Senate bill 828 authorize State Board of Education to define critical subject, areas

advocacy actions need to determine number of actual teachers in your district continue expressing concerns to lawmakers about need to address teacher shortage, TERI crisis need a fix by June 30

legislative priority #3 school bus safety scsba supports legislation to reform the state’s education funding structure

turn around the end is near

legislation filed Senate bill 199 passed Senate, resides in House Judiciary Committee

advocacy actions contact your House member and urge their support to move Senate bill 199 through the House for passage contact House Judiciary Committee members and urge them to move Senate bill 199 through the process

legislative priority #4 school safety scsba supports the allocation of state aid for school safety efforts in all South Carolina public school districts and legislation to allow school districts to freely negotiate the financing of school resource officers with local governments

legislation filed House bill 4810 creates the school metal detector study committee working on draft amendment on clarification language SRO salary

advocacy actions urge support of governor’s school safety grants program $5 million

legislative priority #5 school start date scsba supports amending state law regarding when public schools may start the school year to give districts the flexibility of setting their own start date

legislation filed Senate bill 826 authorizes local school boards to set the start date for the school districts. Senate bill 823 provides school boards the option of beginning the 2018- 2019 school year as early as the second Monday in August.

advocacy actions continue to advocate for changing state date law to House, Senate scsba email to board chairs, superintendent surveying legislators’ support findings so far are not encouraging

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