In 1998, The Educational Accountability Act was passed by the legislature and signed into law for the state of South Carolina. To support the cyclical review process with an evidence-based analytical framework of accountability redesign and associated trade-offs, the Education Oversight Committee (EOC) contracted the services of the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC).
EPIC engaged in a three-part research initiative, conducting an environmental scan to understand the current policy context of South Carolina and to identify “peer state” accountability models, designing and facilitating a series of regional meetings to elicit the values and priorities of stakeholders in the education system, and constructing an analytical framework based on findings from those stakeholder meetings. The purpose of this document is to provide a summary report of these research activities alongside the formal presentation of the resulting analytical framework.
