A week after employees at the Department of Juvenile Justice walked off the job, the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Council met today at the Statehouse. Members of the committee say it is clear change is needed.
A group of state senators investigating South Carolina’s juvenile prison system have voted they have no confidence in Department of Juvenile Justice Director Freddie Pough. The vote Wednesday by a Senate subcommittee investigating the agency came after current and former teachers and jail officers testified that conditions keep getting worse.
The South Carolina House has put its final touches on the state’s nearly $11 billion budget. The spending plan for the year starting in July includes raises for teachers, law enforcement officers and nearly every state employee. It won’t include million-dollar drawings for people who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Inside the Statehouse, lawmakers returned for a special session to take up several key issues in the budget on Tuesday.
The state spending plan heading to the South Carolina House floor next week offers state employees a 3% raise and teachers a $1,000 bump in pay. The House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday approved a nearly $11 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
A new law in South Carolina allows the state education superintendent to fire the entire school board in districts that have too many schools rated as “underperforming.”
Monday afternoon, parents and loved ones gathered at the Statehouse to celebrate the children they’ve lost to one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer.
South Carolina’s Legislature ends its regular session Thursday, ceremonially wrapping up duties. But lawmakers expect several returns later in the year to handle more work.
Legislation adding a firing squad to South Carolina’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs is headed to the desk of Gov. Henry McMaster.
A South Carolina bill letting people with concealed weapons permits carry their guns in the open is heading to Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk. The House approved the bill 83-34 Wednesday and signed off changes made by the Senate to the bill.
