Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 59 > Chapter 18 > Article 16 - Assistance and Intervention

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Department: means the State Department of Education. See South Carolina Code 59-18-120
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Turnaround plan: means a plan outlining goals for a school or district's educational improvement that includes specific strategies designed to increase student achievement and measures to evaluate the success of the implementation of the plan so that the school or district is no longer underperforming or chronically underperforming. See South Carolina Code 59-18-1615
• Underperforming school: means :
  
  (a) a school that receives an overall rating of unsatisfactory or below average on its annual school report card, as provided in § 59-18-900; or
  
  (b) in the absence of the annual school report card, the Department of Education shall apply the same metrics as established in the state and federal combined accountability model, as defined in the Every Students Succeed Act to identify "underperforming schools". See South Carolina Code 59-18-1615