South Carolina Read to Succeed Act (Act 284 of 2014, as amended by Act 114 of 2024)
How schools fund reading intervention in South Carolina
How schools fund reading intervention in South Carolina
How schools fund reading intervention in South Carolina
The state-level programs below are the streams South Carolina districts most often use for evidence-based reading intervention purchases, alongside the federal streams available everywhere.
Summer Reading Camp funding (Read to Succeed)
The state funds district-run summer reading camps (96 instructional hours) for students not reading on grade level; districts can apply this funding to evidence-based reading intervention materials and staffing for camps, which expand to first graders in 2025-26 and second graders in 2026-27.
SC LETRS Professional Development (state-funded)
SCDE provides Lexia LETRS science-of-reading training at no cost to K-3 teachers and elementary administrators, freeing district PD budgets for intervention-specific training and materials.
Palmetto Literacy Project / SCDE literacy specialist support
SCDE provides tiered literacy specialist and coaching support to schools, with the most intensive support for the lowest-performing schools; flexible cash grants for curriculum purchases are limited, so districts commonly use federal Title I/IDEA for intervention curriculum.
Approved-list note: Act 114 requires State Board-approved universal reading screeners and requires districts to periodically reassess curriculum and materials for science-of-reading alignment, excluding three-cueing-based programs; interventions must be evidence-based and aligned with foundational literacy skills.
