South Carolina H 5695: Kershaw Elementary School

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2025-2026 Bill 5695 Text of Previous Version (May. 13, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5695

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A house RESOLUTION

to recognize and honor the pupils, faculty, and 
Administration of Kershaw Elementary School for being chosen as a Beating the 
Odds Investigative Study school and to congratulate them for overcoming issues 
that hinder the possibility of an excellent education in order to become high 
achieving in academics.

Whereas, the members of 
the South Carolina House of Representatives are delighted to learn that Kershaw 
Elementary School has been selected as a Beating the Odds Investigative Study 
school by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC); and 

Whereas, the "Beating 
the Odds" Investigative Study, often conducted in states like South Carolina, 
identifies high-poverty schools that achieve excellent academic results despite 
high student-poverty levels. Researchers use longitudinal data and focus groups 
to find that these schools succeed through high expectations, strong 
leadership, and student-first cultures; and

Whereas, the 
investigative study was implemented by the EOC in 2024 with a purpose of 
examining the practices and characteristics of schools where students are 
achieving well academically despite having a high percentage of pupils in 
poverty. Because the EOC is charged with encouraging continuous improvement in 
South Carolina public schools, this study will help to identify possible 
characteristics that might assist schools in serving students in poverty; and

Whereas, schools that 
qualify for the study have an enrollment of more than one hundred students; 
acquire an "Excellent" overall rating with no "Below Average" or "Unsatisfactory" 
indicator ratings on the South Carolina School Report Card; have a poverty 
ratio greater than or equal to seventy-five percent based on the average 
poverty index of elementary schools with an overall rating of "Below Average," 
the same level of poverty to qualify for federal Title 1 funding; and have open 
enrollment policies not contingent upon academic achievement or upon evaluation 
of application or audition; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives deeply appreciates the dedicated work of 
educators and school administrators who devote themselves to the education of 
future generations of South Carolinians who will lead this State as productive 
citizens. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, recognize and honor the pupils, faculty, and administration 
of Kershaw Elementary School for being chosen as a Beating the Odds 
Investigative Study school and congratulate them for overcoming issues that 
hinder the possibility of an excellent education in order to become high 
achieving in academics.

Be it further resolved 
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Principal Kelli Overcash.

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