1. 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.

2. the proper perspective

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

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

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

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

7. heaven or hell

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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”

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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. turn around the end is near

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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

24. 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

25. 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 school year as early as the second Monday in August.

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

27. real evaluation quotes U. S
real evaluation quotes U.S. corporations that could apply to some lawmakers
"I would not allow this employee to breed." "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap." "He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle." "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them." "This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.” "Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together." "He's been working with glue too much." "He would argue with a signpost."