U.S. Department of Education Closes Out Monitoring of South Carolina

South Carolina’s long road to IDEA compliance

March 25, 2026, U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) issued a Differentiated Monitoring and Support (DMS) closeout letter to South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE). In that letter OSEP said it “has determined that the State has satisfied all of the original required actions identified in OSEP’s April 24, 2024…