COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Legislators are back in Columbia for South Carolina’s January-to-June legislative session.
The House and Senate will gavel in the 2016 session at noon Tuesday. Legislators’ top priorities this session will be funding improvements to the state’s crumbling roads and bridges, providing flood relief following last fall’s historic rainfall and addressing a court order to improve public schools.
The state Supreme Court gave legislators until the end of session to come up with a plan for fixing the educational system. That revised November order followed a ruling by justices one year earlier that poor, rural students lack educational opportunities.
Justices were ruling on a lawsuit initially filed by rural districts in 1993.
