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2025-2026 Bill 953: Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement - South Carolina Legislature Online
South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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S. 953
STATUS INFORMATION
Senate Resolution
Sponsors: Senator Johnson
Document Path: SR-0533KM-AMB26.docx
Introduced in the Senate on February 24, 2026
Adopted by the Senate on March 10, 2026
Summary: Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date
Body
Action Description with journal page number
2/24/2026
Senate
Introduced (
Senate Journal-page 6
)
2/24/2026
Senate
Referred to Committee on
Education
(
Senate Journal-page 6
)
3/5/2026
Senate
Recalled from Committee on
Education
(
Senate Journal-page 3
)
3/10/2026
Senate
Adopted (
Senate Journal-page 59
)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
02/24/2026
03/05/2026
Recalled
March 5, 2026
S. 953
Introduced
by Senator Johnson
S. Printed 3/5/26--S.
Read the first time February 24, 2026
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A
senate
RESOLUTION
TO honor the Center for Educator Recruitment,
Retention, and Advancement (CERRA) upon its fortieth anniversary, to
congratulate the Center for its decades of dedication to advancing education
through recruitment and retention efforts, and to recognize March 24, 2026, as
"CERRA Recognition and Celebration Day."
W
hereas, the Center of
Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA) was established as the
South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment in 1985 to address the growing
teacher shortage; and
W
hereas, CERRA's pilot
program, Teacher Cadets, started in just four high schools but is now in one
hundred sixty-three high schools in seventy of South Carolina's seventy-five
school districts; and Pro Team, a middle school program grown from the success
of Teacher Cadets, is in fifty-seven middle schools in the State; and
W
hereas, CERRA's South
Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, which was founded in 1999, provides
fellowships to over eight hundred South Carolina college students at fourteen
institutions of higher learning and boasts an eighty percent graduation rate. Approximately
three thousand Teaching Fellows graduates have served as teachers in South
Carolina's public-school classrooms; and
W
hereas, CERRA's service programs provide both required
mentor training and additional support for mentor and induction programs,
facilitate National Board Certification for teachers and districts,
and
host the South Carolina Teacher Forum, which promotes
leadership development among the District Teachers of the Year; and
W
hereas, CERRA authors the annual
Supply and Demand
R
eport
that
informs statewide education policy, participates in multiple working groups and
collaborative initiatives with education stakeholders, hosts the statewide
Online Educator Employment System, and maintains ongoing partnerships with
South Carolina's colleges, universities, and school districts; and
W
hereas, the fortieth
anniversary of CERRA is a momentous occasion to reflect upon the past,
celebrate the present, and look to the future with both hope and determination
to advance education in our State and to recognize that CERRA has become
integral to the State's education system. Now, therefore,
B
e it resolved by the
Senate
:
T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
Senate
, by this resolution,
honor
the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention,
and Advancement (CERRA) upon its fortieth anniversary, congratulate the
C
enter for its decades of dedication to advancing education
through recruitment and retention efforts, and recognize March 24, 2026, as
"CERRA Recognition and Celebration Day."
B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to the e
xecutive
director of CERRA, Dr. Lindsay Yearta.
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