South Carolina S 953: Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement

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2025-2026 Bill 953 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 05, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 953

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Recalled

March 5, 2026

S. 953

Introduced 
by Senator Johnson 

S. Printed 3/5/26--S.

Read the first time February 24, 2026

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A senate RESOLUTION

TO honor the Center for Educator Recruitment, 
Retention, and Advancement (CERRA) upon its fortieth anniversary, to 
congratulate the Center for its decades of dedication to advancing education 
through recruitment and retention efforts, and to recognize March 24, 2026, as 
"CERRA Recognition and Celebration Day."

Whereas, the Center of 
Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA) was established as the 
South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment in 1985 to address the growing 
teacher shortage; and

Whereas, CERRA's pilot 
program, Teacher Cadets, started in just four high schools but is now in one 
hundred sixty-three high schools in seventy of South Carolina's seventy-five 
school districts; and Pro Team, a middle school program grown from the success 
of Teacher Cadets, is in fifty-seven middle schools in the State; and

Whereas, CERRA's South 
Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, which was founded in 1999, provides 
fellowships to over eight hundred South Carolina college students at fourteen 
institutions of higher learning and boasts an eighty percent graduation rate. Approximately 
three thousand Teaching Fellows graduates have served as teachers in South 
Carolina's public-school classrooms; and

Whereas, CERRA's service programs provide both required 
mentor training and additional support for mentor and induction programs, 
facilitate National Board Certification for teachers and districts, and host the South Carolina Teacher Forum, which promotes 
leadership development among the District Teachers of the Year; and

Whereas, CERRA authors the annual Supply and Demand Report that 
informs statewide education policy, participates in multiple working groups and 
collaborative initiatives with education stakeholders, hosts the statewide 
Online Educator Employment System, and maintains ongoing partnerships with 
South Carolina's colleges, universities, and school districts; and

Whereas, the fortieth 
anniversary of CERRA is a momentous occasion to reflect upon the past, 
celebrate the present, and look to the future with both hope and determination 
to advance education in our State and to recognize that CERRA has become 
integral to the State's education system. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the 
South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, 
honor the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, 
and Advancement (CERRA) upon its fortieth anniversary, congratulate the Center for its decades of dedication to advancing education 
through recruitment and retention efforts, and recognize March 24, 2026, as 
"CERRA Recognition and Celebration Day."

Be it further resolved 
that a copy of this resolution be presented to the executive 
director of CERRA, Dr. Lindsay Yearta.

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