South-Carolina
New Laws Give Teachers a Break, Ban Lunch Debt Collections
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two new legal guidelines in South Carolina require each college give elementary college academics a 30-minute break every day with out college students and ban districts from turning over college lunch debt to assortment companies.
The payments had been handed within the ultimate days of the 2022 Common Meeting session and signed into regulation by Gov. Henry McMaster. Each handed the Home and Senate unanimously.
The break invoice requires academics in elementary college and particular training academics who’ve college students of their courses for a lot of the day get half-hour with none assigned duties or tasks.
Trainer teams requested the regulation, saying some academics by no means had time to eat a lunch and even use the lavatory as a result of they had been watching college students.
A second invoice prohibits college districts from turning over debt a scholar owes for college lunches to a set company. Supporters mentioned college students have to eat no matter their means to pay and turning debt over to a set company was too drastic of a step.
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