WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday announced an education plan that spends more money on poor children, focuses on reading in the early grades and improves technology in schools.
Haley’s proposal would spend more than $160 million extra in the next fiscal year on public schools. The Republican governor said this must be the first of a multiyear effort to transform South Carolina’s schools within the next decade.
Her proposal includes spending an additional $97 million on children who live in poverty, $30 million to hire additional reading coaches in elementary schools and $29 million to improve Internet and wireless capabilities in schools. The state would fully cover the cost of a reading coach for several hundred elementary schools where a substantial number of students score poorly on standardized reading tests. The coaches would be partially funded at others. Technology money would be distributed to districts based on their poverty rating.
Haley’s education plan would spend more on poor kids
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