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South Carolina — school discipline

Governing authority stated in the sources
South Carolina Code of Laws Title 59, Chapter 63, Sections 59-63-210 (grounds for expulsion, suspension, or transfer), 59-63-217 (barring enrollment based on a disciplinary or delinquency record), 59-63-220 (suspension by an administrator), 59-63-230 (notices of suspension and the conference), 59-63-235 (firearm expulsion), 59-63-237 (expulsion for a threat of violence with a weapon), 59-63-240 (expulsion for the remainder of the year, and hearings), 59-63-250 (transfer in lieu of suspension or expulsion), 59-63-260 (corporal punishment), and Article 13, Sections 59-63-1300 to 59-63-1400 (alternative school programs). The most recent amendments are 2026 Act No. 193 (S.416), effective May 18, 2026, which amended Sections 59-63-210, 59-63-235, and 59-63-250 and added Section 59-63-237: "2026 Act No. 193 (S.416), SECTION 3, eff May 18, 2026." The expulsion-hearing section carries the amendment before that: "2024 Act No. 194 (S.1188), SECTION 1, eff May 21, 2024". — S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63, retrieved Oct 25, 2026
The lines the state draws
On suspension by an administrator, the statute states three numbers at once: a district board may confer authority "to suspend a pupil from a teacher's class or from the school not in excess of ten days for any one offense and for not more than thirty days in any one school year but no such administrator may suspend a pupil from school during the last ten days of a year if the suspension will make the pupil ineligible to receive credit for the school year without the approval of the school board unless the presence of the pupil constitutes an actual threat to a class or a school or a hearing is granted within twenty-four hours of the suspension." (§ 59-63-220) On expulsion: "The board may expel for the remainder of the school year a pupil for any of the reasons listed in Section 59-63-210", and "The board may permanently expel any incorrigible pupil." (§ 59-63-240) For a firearm the state states a floor rather than a ceiling: "A student who is determined to have knowingly brought a firearm to a school or any setting under the jurisdiction of a local board of trustees must be expelled for no less than one year from the date of the incident." The section then states modification separately for a hearing the board conducts and for one conducted by any other authority, quoted in section 01 below. (§ 59-63-235(A)) For a threat of violence with a weapon, a section added in 2026 states a ceiling: "The district board of trustees must expel for no more than one academic year a student who is determined to have knowingly and wilfully delivered or conveyed a threat to commit bodily harm by means of a weapon against students or employees of a school by means of any letter or paper, writing, document, electronic communication, or other type of communication that is intended to reach another person." (§ 59-63-237(A)) A bar to enrollment on a disciplinary or delinquency record carries its own stated ceiling: "The bar to enrollment allowed by this section applies for a maximum of one year." (§ 59-63-217(C)) The grounds themselves are stated broadly: expulsion, suspension, or transfer "for the commission of any crime, gross immorality, gross misbehavior, persistent disobedience, or for violation of written rules and promulgated regulations established by the district board, county board, or the State Board of Education, or when the presence of the pupil is detrimental to the best interest of the school." (§ 59-63-210(A))
No separate emergency-removal provision appears in the sources reviewed; the twenty-four-hour hearing clause in § 59-63-220 is the nearest stated text, and that is recorded as a finding rather than read as one.
Offices and appeal bodies in these sources
Both routes end at the district board of trustees, and expulsion carries a stated route to court. On suspension: "After the conference the parents or legal guardian may appeal the suspension to the board of trustees or to its authorized agent." (§ 59-63-230) On expulsion: "If the hearing is held by any authority other than the board of trustees, the right to appeal the decision to the board is reserved to either party", and "The action of the board may be appealed to the proper court." (§ 59-63-240) On a transfer ordered by an administrator: "The parents or legal guardian may appeal a transfer made by an administrator to the board." (§ 59-63-250) A student barred from enrolling on a disciplinary or delinquency record carries "all other procedural rights afforded under state law to a student subject to expulsion." (§ 59-63-217(B))
No state office, phone number, or email for parents appears in the sources; the statute instead requires the district's own notice to carry "contact information for a legal aid service provider which may determine eligibility for free legal representation." (§ 59-63-240) That is the state's only published pointer to outside help at this layer, and it is a duty on the district, not an address the state itself publishes.
Sources last checked
Oct 25, 2026

Reproduced from the state's own statutes quoted below: potentially relevant official sources, not a determination of which one governs any situation.

This page assembles what South Carolina publishes in statute about K-12 school discipline: who may suspend, expel, or transfer a pupil and how, the notice and the conference or hearing the statute requires, what continues during an exclusion, where the appeal routes run, and, because the statute assigns significant detail to each district, a map of the questions answered only in a district's own written rules. The fullest single statement is Title 59, Chapter 63; its provisions each carry their own act and session-law notations rather than one currency date for the whole chapter. South Carolina's own vocabulary appears throughout: the pupil, the board of trustees, the conference (on suspension) and the hearing (on expulsion), and the district's written rules and promulgated regulations. District codes of conduct add procedural detail this page does not carry; the delegation map below points at exactly those questions. For a student with an IEP or Section 504 plan, the disability layer lives on this site's South Carolina special education page. Confirm applicability with the district and the agencies. All dates on this page are quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.

01The framework

The framework, as the state writes it

Grounds for expulsion, suspension, or transfer (§ 59-63-210). "Any district board of trustees may authorize or order the expulsion, suspension, or transfer of any pupil for the commission of any crime, gross immorality, gross misbehavior, persistent disobedience, or for violation of written rules and promulgated regulations established by the district board, county board, or the State Board of Education, or when the presence of the pupil is detrimental to the best interest of the school." "Each expelled pupil has the right to petition for readmission for the succeeding school year." (§ 59-63-210(A)) The section states the effect of expulsion and of suspension separately. On expulsion: "Expulsion must be construed to prohibit a pupil from entering the school or school grounds including, but not limited to, attending any day or night school functions or riding a school bus. An expelled student may only enter school or school grounds for a prearranged conference with an administrator. This prohibition shall continue for the duration of the expulsion period." (§ 59-63-210(A)(1)) On suspension: "Suspension must be construed to prohibit a pupil from entering the school or school grounds, except for a prearranged conference with an administrator, attending any day or night school functions, or riding a school bus. This prohibition shall continue for the duration of the suspension period." (§ 59-63-210(A)(2)) And: "The provisions of this section do not preclude enrollment and attendance in any alternate education program to include adult education or virtual programming." (§ 59-63-210(B))

Barring enrollment on a disciplinary or delinquency record (§ 59-63-217). "In determining whether or not a student meets the standards of conduct and behavior promulgated by the board of trustees necessary for first time enrollment and attendance in a school in the district, the board shall consider nonschool records, the student's disciplinary records in any school in which the student was previously enrolled as these records relate to the adjudication of delinquency in any jurisdiction, within or without this State, of violations or activities which constitute violent crimes under Section 16-1-60, adjudications for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, the unlawful use or possession of weapons, or the unlawful sale of drugs whether or not considered to be drug trafficking." A bar carries the notice-and-hearing rights quoted in the docket, and applies "for a maximum of one year." (§ 59-63-217)

Suspension by an administrator (§ 59-63-220). "Any district board may confer upon any administrator the authority to suspend a pupil from a teacher's class or from the school" within the day limits, the year-end bar, and the exceptions quoted in the docket.

Notice and conference (§ 59-63-230). "When a pupil is suspended from a class or a school, the administrator shall notify, in writing, the parents or legal guardian of the pupil, giving the reason for such suspension and setting a time and place when the administrator shall be available for a conference with the parents or guardian." "The conference shall be set within three days of the date of the suspension." The appeal that follows is quoted in the docket.

Firearm expulsion (§ 59-63-235). "A student who is determined to have knowingly brought a firearm to a school or any setting under the jurisdiction of a local board of trustees must be expelled for no less than one year from the date of the incident. The expulsion hearing must follow the procedures established pursuant to Section 59-63-240." Modification is stated twice, by who holds the hearing: "If the hearing is conducted by the district board of trustees, the one-year expulsion period is subject to modification by the board on a case-by-case basis." "If the hearing is conducted by any authority other than the district board of trustees, the one-year expulsion period is subject to modification by the district superintendent of education. The board must receive and review a copy of the results of the expulsion hearing and affirm any modification recommendations by the district superintendent of education. If the board does not affirm a modification recommendation of the district superintendent, the expulsion period established in this section shall be reinstated. A student shall retain all rights afforded to him by Section 59-63-240." (§ 59-63-235(B), (C)) "Students expelled pursuant to this section are not precluded from receiving educational services in an alternative setting to include virtual programming." The referral policy that follows is delegated; see the map below.

Expulsion for a threat of violence with a weapon (§ 59-63-237). Added by 2026 Act No. 193, effective May 18, 2026. The one-year ceiling is quoted in the docket, and "The expulsion period is subject to modification on a case-by-case basis as determined by the district board of trustees or district superintendent of education." (§ 59-63-237(A)) The section states what must be found first: "In order for a student to be expelled under this section, the board or any authority the board designates to conduct an expulsion hearing, must find, at a minimum:" "the threat was directed at specific students, staff, or school;" "an ordinary person reviewing the threat would have a reasonable expectation of a violent act resulting in bodily harm;" "the student making the threat could be reasonably expected to have the capacity to carry out the threat; and" "the threat resulted in a material and substantial disruption to school operations including, but not limited to, the cancellation of classes or families declining to send students to school in response to the threat or a lock-down of the school and students." (§ 59-63-237(B)) "The expulsion hearing must follow the procedures established pursuant to Section 59-63-240. Students expelled pursuant to this section must be afforded access to educational services through an alternative or virtual setting." The referral policy that follows is delegated; see the map below.

Expulsion for the remainder of the year, and hearings (§ 59-63-240). "If procedures for expulsion are initiated, the parents or legal guardian of the pupil shall be notified in writing of the time and the place of a hearing either before the board or a person or committee designated by the board." What that written notification must contain, and the clocks around the hearing and the decision, are quoted in the process section below.

Transfer in lieu of suspension or expulsion (§ 59-63-250). "The board or a designated administrator may transfer a pupil to another school within the school district in lieu of suspension or expulsion but only after a hearing with the parents or legal guardian and notification to and input from the principal at the receiving school. The parents or legal guardian may request a conference in lieu of the hearing provided under this section." The appeal that follows is quoted in the docket.

Corporal punishment (§ 59-63-260). "The governing body of each school district may provide corporal punishment for any pupil that it deems just and proper." Whether it is used at all is a district's own decision; see the delegation map.

Alternative school placement as an option to suspension or expulsion (Article 13, §§ 59-63-1300 to 59-63-1400). "Students placed in an alternative school program by the district board of trustees as an option to suspension or expulsion or by the dispositive order of a family court judge, with the consent of the local board of trustees." Before that placement, "a determination must be made by the local board that the written and distributed disciplinary policy of the district has been followed." (§ 59-63-1320) The article does not disturb a board's underlying authority: "Nothing in this article shall abrogate the authority of any public school district and its governing board to take such disciplinary action as it is otherwise empowered by law to take against any student for misconduct including, but not limited to, expulsion, and nothing in this chapter shall require that any student be assigned to such an alternative school. These decisions shall rest solely in the discretion of the district and school board, regardless of the offense, record of the child, or other information presented from any source." (§ 59-63-1330)

02The process

The published process

Notice and hearing before exclusion
On suspension, the state states the notice and a conference rather than a hearing: "When a pupil is suspended from a class or a school, the administrator shall notify, in writing, the parents or legal guardian of the pupil, giving the reason for such suspension and setting a time and place when the administrator shall be available for a conference with the parents or guardian. The conference shall be set within three days of the date of the suspension." (§ 59-63-230) Before an expulsion, the statute requires written notice of a hearing: "If procedures for expulsion are initiated, the parents or legal guardian of the pupil shall be notified in writing of the time and the place of a hearing either before the board or a person or committee designated by the board." And it fixes what that notice must contain: "The written notification to the parents or legal guardian of the pupil must include their right to have legal counsel present at the hearing, the right to question all witnesses, and contact information for a legal aid service provider which may determine eligibility for free legal representation. The notification must also include the right to access the investigative file in its entirety, to include all documents and videos, at least three days prior to the hearing, with appropriate exemptions and redactions as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g." (§ 59-63-240) A firearm expulsion and an expulsion for a threat of violence with a weapon each state: "The expulsion hearing must follow the procedures established pursuant to Section 59-63-240." (§§ 59-63-235(A), 59-63-237(C)) A student barred from enrolling on a disciplinary or delinquency record carries the same procedural rights as a student facing expulsion. (§ 59-63-217(B))
Services during exclusion
The statute states educational services for two expulsion routes, in different words. For a firearm expulsion: "Students expelled pursuant to this section are not precluded from receiving educational services in an alternative setting to include virtual programming." (§ 59-63-235(D)) For an expulsion for a threat of violence with a weapon: "Students expelled pursuant to this section must be afforded access to educational services through an alternative or virtual setting." (§ 59-63-237(C)) For suspension and expulsion generally, the statute states only that enrollment elsewhere is not precluded: "The provisions of this section do not preclude enrollment and attendance in any alternate education program to include adult education or virtual programming." (§ 59-63-210(B)) No general continuing-education requirement during an ordinary suspension or expulsion appears in the sources reviewed. Separately, a district board may place a disruptive pupil in an alternative school program "as an option to suspension or expulsion" (§ 59-63-1320), with its own due-process procedures quoted in the delegation map below, but the statute does not state that this placement is offered rather than left to the board's discretion.
The record made, and the appeal route
"After the conference the parents or legal guardian may appeal the suspension to the board of trustees or to its authorized agent." (§ 59-63-230) On expulsion: "If the hearing is held by any authority other than the board of trustees, the right to appeal the decision to the board is reserved to either party", and "The action of the board may be appealed to the proper court." (§ 59-63-240) On a transfer ordered by an administrator: "The parents or legal guardian may appeal a transfer made by an administrator to the board." (§ 59-63-250) The statute does not state that a written or audio record or transcript of an expulsion hearing itself is made, in contrast to the written notice, the investigative-file-access right, and the written hearing notification it does require; that absence is recorded rather than assumed.
If the student has an IEP or Section 504 plan
The disability layer lives on this site's South Carolina special education page. The discipline article contains no express cross-reference to federal special-education discipline law comparable to Texas's Sec. 37.019(c) or Pennsylvania's § 12.6(a); that absence is recorded rather than assumed.

The four rows above answer the questions an experienced adviser raises first, from the state's own statutes, or record that a question is not answered in them.

Timelines, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none calculated. From S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63 as retrieved Oct 25, 2026.

On suspension by an administrator: "not in excess of ten days for any one offense and for not more than thirty days in any one school year", with a further bar during "the last ten days of a year if the suspension will make the pupil ineligible to receive credit for the school year", unless the pupil's presence is an actual threat or "a hearing is granted within twenty-four hours of the suspension." (§ 59-63-220)

On the conference after a suspension: "within three days of the date of the suspension." (§ 59-63-230)

On a firearm expulsion: "no less than one year from the date of the incident", with "the one-year expulsion period" subject to modification as quoted in section 01. (§ 59-63-235)

On an expulsion for a threat of violence with a weapon: "no more than one academic year". (§ 59-63-237(A))

On the expulsion hearing and decision: "within fifteen days of the written notification at a time and place designated by the board and a decision shall be rendered within ten days of the hearing." (§ 59-63-240)

On access to the investigative file before an expulsion hearing: "at least three days prior to the hearing". (§ 59-63-240)

On a bar to enrollment: "a maximum of one year." (§ 59-63-217(C))

What any of this means for a particular situation is for the district, the agencies, and their processes to determine.

District delegation map

The statute writes the frame and expressly hands significant detail to each district board of trustees. Each entry below is a question a district's own written rules or policy answers, with the delegating text quoted. No district's code of conduct is captured or quoted here.

Which conduct is punishable. The grounds for expulsion, suspension, or transfer reach "violation of written rules and promulgated regulations established by the district board, county board, or the State Board of Education". (§ 59-63-210(A))

Whether an administrator may suspend a pupil at all. "Any district board may confer upon any administrator the authority to suspend a pupil from a teacher's class or from the school" within the statutory ceilings quoted above. (§ 59-63-220)

The standards of conduct that bar first-time enrollment. A district board weighs "the standards of conduct and behavior promulgated by the board of trustees necessary for first time enrollment and attendance in a school in the district". (§ 59-63-217(A))

Whether corporal punishment is used. "The governing body of each school district may provide corporal punishment for any pupil that it deems just and proper." (§ 59-63-260)

Referral to the Department of Juvenile Justice after a firearm or weapon-threat expulsion. Both sections carry the same sentence: "Each local board of trustees is to establish a policy which requires the student to be referred to the local county office of the Department of Juvenile Justice or its representative." (§§ 59-63-235(D), 59-63-237(C))

Due process for placement in an alternative school program. "Districts must establish clear guidelines and procedures for the placement of any student into an alternative school program and at a minimum they shall prescribe due process procedures for placement actions." (§ 59-63-1320)

Disciplinary action generally. "Nothing in this article shall abrogate the authority of any public school district and its governing board to take such disciplinary action as it is otherwise empowered by law to take against any student for misconduct including, but not limited to, expulsion, and nothing in this chapter shall require that any student be assigned to such an alternative school. These decisions shall rest solely in the discretion of the district and school board, regardless of the offense, record of the child, or other information presented from any source." (§ 59-63-1330)

Records access, as stated in the sources

Before an expulsion hearing, the statute gives the parents or legal guardian "the right to access the investigative file in its entirety, to include all documents and videos, at least three days prior to the hearing, with appropriate exemptions and redactions as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g." (§ 59-63-240) The chapter's School Crime Report Act addresses a related but distinct record: where a student is convicted of or adjudicated delinquent for the offenses it lists, "information concerning the conviction or adjudication and sentencing must be placed in the student's permanent school record and must be forwarded with the student's permanent school records if the student transfers to another school or school district." (§ 59-63-370) Chapter 63 does not state what a parent may inspect from a student's own suspension or expulsion record generally, who else may see it, or whether or how it may be expunged; that absence is the finding (§§ 59-63-210 through 59-63-260 and 59-63-370 were searched). Federal records rights under FERPA are federal and are not restated here.

03Source map

Source map

DocumentLocationDates
S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63 (public education; pupils generally), full chapter, including §§ 59-63-210 to 59-63-1400scstatehouse.govact notations following each section; §§ 59-63-210, 59-63-235, and 59-63-250 amended, and § 59-63-237 added, by 2026 Act No. 193, effective May 18, 2026; § 59-63-240 amended by 2024 Act No. 194, effective May 21, 2024; retrieved Oct 25, 2026
S.C. Code Regulation 43-279 (State Board of Education, student conduct and disciplinary enforcement)published only within the State House's Chapter 43 regulation PDF; no per-regulation HTML address was locatedcapture pending
S.C. Code § 59-150-250(B) (the lottery-related provision § 59-63-210(B) carves out) and § 16-1-60 (the violent-crimes provision §§ 59-63-217 and 59-63-370 cite)cited in the sections abovecapture pending
South Carolina Department of Education guidance on student discipline—not located in this review; capture pending
District written rules, promulgated regulations, and codes of student conducteach district, per §§ 59-63-210(A) and 59-63-260never captured; see the delegation map
04Change log

Change log

Oct 25, 2026 · Rebuilt against 2026 Act No. 193 (attended drift resolution). Recaptured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/south-carolina-discipline.json (digest e3a4610428fd), by curl, one source: S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63. An attended recapture on the Mac matched the nightly review's capture of the same day body for body. What moved, and which kind of drift it was: quotations the source now states in different words. 2026 Act No. 193 (S.416), effective May 18, 2026, amended three sections this page quotes and added a fourth, and each section's history line now names it. (1) Section 59-63-210 now states the effect of expulsion and of suspension in separate subsections, and its enrollment clause changed. The page had quoted "Expulsion or suspension must be construed to prohibit a pupil from entering the school or school grounds, except for a prearranged conference with an administrator, attending any day or night school functions, or riding a school bus" and "The provisions of this section do not preclude enrollment and attendance in any adult or night school"; the section now reads as quoted in section 01, and its enrollment clause reaches "any alternate education program to include adult education or virtual programming." (2) Section 59-63-235 was rewritten. The page had quoted "The district board must expel for no less than one year a student who is determined to have brought a firearm to a school or any setting under the jurisdiction of a local board of trustees", with the term subject to modification "by the district superintendent of education on a case-by-case basis"; the section now reads "knowingly brought", runs the year "from the date of the incident", states modification separately for a hearing the board conducts and for one any other authority conducts, with the board affirming or declining any modification the superintendent recommends, and its services sentence now ends "to include virtual programming." (3) Section 59-63-250 now confines the transfer to "another school within the school district", requires a hearing with the parents together with "notification to and input from the principal at the receiving school", and lets the parents "request a conference in lieu of the hearing"; the page had quoted "only after a conference or hearing with the parents or legal guardian." (4) Section 59-63-237 is new: an expulsion "for no more than one academic year" for a threat to commit bodily harm by means of a weapon, four minimum findings, the same hearing procedure, a statement that students expelled under it "must be afforded access to educational services through an alternative or virtual setting", and the same Department of Juvenile Justice referral policy. It is added to the docket, section 01, the notice and services rows, the timelines and the delegation map. Finding (4) of the 2026-09-03 entry, that continuing education is stated only for a firearm expulsion, no longer describes the statute; that entry is left as written. Nothing else this page quotes moved: Section 59-63-240's notice, hearing and clocks, and Sections 59-63-217, 59-63-220, 59-63-230, 59-63-260, 59-63-370 and Article 13, are unchanged. The amendment's effective date precedes the 2026-09-03 capture, which printed the pre-amendment text and history lines; the source does not state when the State House's published code took up the amendment, and this page does not guess. First detected by the nightly review on 2026-10-25 (FA-Q-20261025-01); retained as a rebuild. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-10-25). Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.

Sep 3, 2026 · Deepened to a full page (discipline-layer deepening pass). Re-captured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/south-carolina-discipline.json (digest e3a4610428fd): S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63, unchanged in substance from the Sep 1, 2026 baseline capture (retrieval date refreshed only; the recipe's single source returns the whole chapter, Articles 1 through 13, not only the discipline article). Built sections 01–02 (the framework route by route, the four hoisted process rows, the timelines section, the district delegation map, and records access) from that same source; no additional source was needed to reach full depth, because the chapter's other articles carry provisions this page needed: Article 13 (§§ 59-63-1300 to 59-63-1400) for the alternative-school route offered as an option to suspension or expulsion and its own due-process delegation, § 59-63-260 for corporal punishment, § 59-63-217 for the enrollment-bar procedure, and § 59-63-370 (the School Crime Report Act) for the one records-adjacent provision the chapter states. Findings recorded: (1) no separate emergency-removal provision exists anywhere in the chapter; the twenty-four-hour hearing clause in § 59-63-220 remains the nearest stated text; (2) the discipline article contains no cross-reference to federal special-education discipline law, unlike Texas's Sec. 37.019(c) or Pennsylvania's § 12.6(a); that absence is recorded rather than assumed; (3) no provision anywhere in the chapter requires a written or audio record of an expulsion hearing itself, in contrast to the written notice, the investigative-file-access right, and the written hearing notification the same sections do require; (4) continuing education during exclusion is stated only for a firearm expulsion (§ 59-63-235); ordinary suspension and expulsion carry no comparable guarantee beyond the preserved right to attend adult or night school (§ 59-63-210(A)); (5) State Board Regulation 43-279 remains uncaptured — published only inside the State House's Chapter 43 regulation PDF, with no per-regulation HTML address located; §§ 59-150-250(B) and 16-1-60, both cited by the chapter, remain uncaptured; no South Carolina Department of Education discipline guidance page was located. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.

Sep 1, 2026 · Baseline page created (discipline-layer breadth sprint). Captured first-party under recipe tools/recipes/south-carolina-discipline.json: S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63 from the State House's chapter document, by curl; the State House serves Title 59 one chapter per address and the chapter is captured whole. Findings recorded: (1) South Carolina states three suspension numbers in a single sentence at § 59-63-220 — ten days per offense, thirty days per school year, and a bar on suspension in the last ten days of the year where credit would be lost — with two stated exceptions to that last bar; (2) the expulsion section states its own clocks, a hearing "within fifteen days of the written notification" and a decision "within ten days of the hearing", both quoted and neither calculated here; (3) the 2024 amendment added the legal-aid contact information and the right to access the investigative file at least three days before the hearing to the required expulsion notice, and the section records that it "rewrote the third sentence and inserted the fourth sentence"; (4) no separate emergency-removal provision appears in the sources reviewed, and the twenty-four-hour hearing clause in § 59-63-220 is recorded as a finding rather than read as one; (5) no state office or contact for parents appears anywhere in the sources — the statute places the duty to supply a legal-aid contact on the district; (6) State Board Regulation 43-279 is published only inside the State House's Chapter 43 regulation PDF, with no per-regulation HTML address located in this review, and is not yet captured. Not yet built, pending the deepening pass: sections 01–02 (framework, hoisted rows, timelines), the district delegation map, and records access. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.

Oct 16, 2026 · Internet Archive captures recorded. Captures requested this date by an automated capture pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. Captures added: S.C. Code Title 59, Chapter 63 → https://web.archive.org/web/20261016044713/https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t59c063.php. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.