Fully restoring the “austerity budget cuts,” developing a statewide strategy to contain health care costs and strengthening provisions for local control and management of schools are among the priorities for next year’s session of the state Legislature recently adopted by the Cherokee County School Board.
The Legislative Partnership Priorities, adopted annually by the School Board, spell out the district’s position on major education-related issues likely to be considered by the General Assembly. The School Board said it hopes to meet next month with Cherokee County’s legislative delegation to review the priorities.
Most of the priorities adopted last week were unchanged from last year’s, except for the addition of a request for the state to bring back a career-track diploma with course requirements to better prepare students for technical college or directly entering the workforce, the district said in a news release.
The district also calls on the Legislature address the continued erosion of the state’s tax base through exemptions from sales and use taxes, the income tax and other state taxes; and opposes continuing or expanding programs that use public funds to pay for private school tuition or provide tax incentives to parents.
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