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SC officials creating 2020 education goals
Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009
SC officials creating 2020 education goals
The Associated Press
South Carolina education officials are setting new accountability goals that public schools and students should meet over the next decade.
Members of the Education Oversight Committee and the state Board of Education met Monday to discuss goals for 2020, to coincide with a revamping of the state's end-of-school-year tests.
The group decided to postpone voting on a goal until August.
Members debated whether the goal should include specific benchmarks, such as percentage of students who test on grade level and graduate on time. They discussed whether the goal should be realistic or inspirational. And they discussed whether such goals should be set 10 years out.
They noted the state won't meet the 2010 education goals set under the state's 1998 education accountability law.
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