By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Education advocates in the state are cheerleading the Senate’s draft budget for its focus on K-12 education, but they say work still needs to be done to restore the main stream of funding for public schools in South Carolina.
State law requires per-student funding for public schools to be $2,959 per year in the 2018-19 budget. But proposed funding for the coming year remains hundreds of millions below required levels.
In the current 2017-18 fiscal year, the state spent $2,425 per student to fund public education, an increase of $75 per student over the previous year’s $2,350 base student cost.
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