South Carolina General Assembly

121st Session, 2015-2016

S.459

STATUS INFORMATION

Senate Resolution

Sponsors: Senator Turner

Document Path: l:\s-res\rt\002high.ksg.rt.docx

Introduced in the Senate on February 17, 2015

Adopted by the Senate on March 4, 2015

Summary: Graduation Awareness Week

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

DateBodyAction Description with journal page number

2/17/2015SenateIntroduced (Senate Journalpage7)

2/17/2015SenateReferred to Committee on Education(Senate Journalpage7)

2/27/2015Scrivener's error corrected

3/3/2015SenateRecalled from Committee on Education(Senate Journalpage4)

3/4/2015Scrivener's error corrected

3/4/2015SenateAdopted (Senate Journalpage20)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

2/17/2015

2/27/2015

3/3/2015

3/4/2015

RECALLED

March 3, 2015

S.459

Introduced by Senator Turner

S. Printed 3/3/15--S.[SEC 3/4/15 1:07 PM]

Read the first time February 17, 2015.

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A SENATE RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE GRADUATE SC AND ITS GOAL OF INCREASING AWARENESS OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTSAND OF PREVENTING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM DROPPING OUT IN THE FUTURE AND TO PROCLAIM THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2015 AS “GRADUATION AWARENESS WEEK OF 2015”.

Whereas, more than 1.2 million students in the United States (approximately seven thousand students per day) drop out of high school every year; and

Whereas, roughly seventyfive percent of students in South Carolina actually graduate from high school; and

Whereas, seventyfive percent of state prison inmates and fiftynine percent of federal prison inmates are high school dropouts; and

Whereas, South Carolina’s children are faced with incredible obstacles to learning because one in three children will grow up in poverty; and

Whereas, in South Carolina, only onethird of high school students will graduate on time, and absent awareness and action, that number is not expected to increase; and

Whereas, South Carolina should have a program designed to help raise awareness of high school dropout rates and to lower the dropout rate; and

Whereas, GradUate SC, a program established by the Leadership South Carolina Class of 2015 in conjunction with key partners, seeks to raise awareness regarding dropouts in South Carolina by: informing the business community about its role in both providing jobs and helping decrease the dropout rate; educating middle school and high school students about how they can stay in school and why they should earn a high school diploma; and encouraging legislators to affect change in public policy for dropout prevention. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the Senate, by this resolution, recognize GradUate SC and its goal of increasing awareness of high school dropouts and of preventing high school students from dropping out in the future and proclaim the second week of September 2015 as “Graduation Awareness Week of 2015”.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Leadership South Carolina.

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