{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-59-152-30","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 59-152-30","heading":"Goals.","body":"The goals for South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness are to:\n(1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the optimal development of their preschool children;\n(2) increase comprehensive services so children have reduced risk for major physical, developmental, and learning problems;\n(3) promote high-quality preschool programs that provide a healthy environment that will promote normal growth and development;\n(4) provide services so all children receive the protection, nutrition, and health care needed to thrive in the early years of life so they arrive at school ready to succeed; and\n(5) mobilize communities to focus efforts on providing enhanced services to support families and their young children so as to enable every child to reach school healthy and ready to succeed.","path":["Title 59 - EDUCATION","CHAPTER 152 South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t59c152.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T08:06:14Z","sha256":"5f6c4f75dce6ffe727349b6521fab5812d350b7032454d0789ce35201e8e55a8","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-59-152-25","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-59-152-32"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}