BEAUFORT -- A new state House committee will have a year to improve the state's 30-year-old educational funding system, long bemoaned in South Carolina as a funding system that has shortchanged students in poorer counties over the last several years. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, appointed 15 legislators Wednesday who will investigate the Education Finance Act, the state's primary education funding mechanism.

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