S.C. Code Ann. § 59-54-50 – Memoranda of agreements involving local technical college commissions and local school boards; effect of failure to enter into memoranda of agreement

(A) To assure a coordinated and articulated local delivery of vocational, technical, and adult basic and adult secondary education and job training, each local technical college commission and local school boards within each service area, as presently established by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education for the various technical colleges, shall enter into memoranda of agreement that must demonstrate the following:
1. (1) cooperation between the technical college and the vocational school in the planning and delivery of adult vocational education;
2. (2) articulation of secondary vocational courses to post-secondary courses in the curricula of the technical colleges;
3. (3) coordination among local boards, other local community agencies, literacy councils, private and nonprofit groups in planning and delivering adult basic education, adult secondary education, and literacy programs.
(B) Any technical college commission or local school board that fails to enter into memoranda of agreement which substantially agree with the provisions of this chapter within two years of the effective date of this chapter shall not receive further state funding for post-secondary or secondary vocational education until such time as memoranda of agreement that substantially agree with this chapter have been executed.