The State Board of Education, through the State Department of Education, in order to offer students more instructional time in a particular basic skill, may allow adjustments in the amount of instructional time required in each of the subjects in the State's defined minimum program. No commission or agency of the State shall require any public high school in this State to require foreign language as a prerequisite to receiving a regular high school diploma.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-26-70
Adjustments in instructional time permitted; foreign language requirements for diploma
1984 Act No. 512, Part II, SECTION 9, Division II, Subdivision B, SubPart 3, SECTION 4.
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