On the very last day of the legislative cycle, S.302 passed both the House and Senate yesterday (May 10) after the House and Senate worked out differences between their two versions of the bill. The bill now must be ratified by the House and Senate (put into proper legislative language and filed), and then signed by the Governor.
S.302 allows Marching Band to count for high school PE credit. The relevant language in the bill is as follows:
Additionally, in a public school that offers instruction in marching band based on the South Carolina Academic Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts and that incorporates the South Carolina Academic Standards for Physical Education, this instruction must be considered to be the equivalent of physical education instruction and must be accepted in lieu of physical education instruction for all purposes; provided the district first shall submit a plan to the department documenting that all South Carolina Academic Standards for Physical Education are met in the proposed marching band instruction, and upon approval of the plan by the department, this instruction may be offered and considered to be the equivalent of physical education instruction.
All Marching Band students will be required to complete some form of “physical health” coursework (online, folded into band program, or other means).
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