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Grants to fund summer reading camps
Staff Report //April 26, 2018//
Listen to this articleTwenty-four school district and community organizations will receive a portion of a $700,000 grant from the S.C. Department of Education’s Summer Reading Camp Community Partnership.
The grant, funded by a General Assembly appropriation, aims to expand existing summer reading camps that provide instructional services to elementary school students working toward grade-level reading proficiency.
The 2017-18 school year marks the first that a student must be retained in third grade if he or she does not meet state reading assessment standards. Successful completion of a summer reading camp is one of seven good-cause exemptions from mandatory retention.
“A student’s ability to read is a critical predictor of educational and lifelong success,” state superintendent Molly Spearman said in a news release. “Summer reading camps provide students with extended time and support to help them become stronger readers while combating summer reading loss in a fun, active environment.”
The organizations and award amounts are:
- Allendale County Schools, $29,856
- Anderson School District Two, $29,856
- Barnwell School District 45, $29,623
- Charleston Promise Neighborhood, $29,856
- Cherokee County School District, $29,856
- Darlington County School District, $29,856
- Dorchester School District 4, $21,495
- Florence County School District Three, $29,856
- Kershaw County School District, $29,856
- Laurens County School District 55, $29,856
- Laurens County School District 56, $29,856
- Lexington School District One, $29,856
- McCormick County School District, $29,856
- Orangeburg Consolidated School District 5, $28,574
- Reading Partners, $29,856
- Richland County School District One, $29,856
- Saluda County Schools, $23,187
- Spartanburg School District One, $29,856
- Spartanburg School District Two, $29,856
- Spartanburg School District 7, $29,856
- Sumter School District, $29,856
- United Way of Pickens County, $29,856
- Ware Schools School District 51, $29,856
- York School District 1, $29,856
