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SC could get education stimulus funds
State Department of Education leaders say they will apply for a portion of $4 billion in federal stimulus money for school reform available to states, and they think they have a shot at getting it.
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Coming home
'Big Red' will go on display at The Citadel
A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina. The red palmetto flag -- believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on the supply ship Star of the West -- will require special and expensive care, said Ted Curtis, a 1964 Citadel graduate and chairman of an alumni committee that researched the flag's authenticity.
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Is McLeod worth its price?
Questions raised in plantation's purchase
McLeod Plantation would bring the landlocked College of Charleston something it really needs -- more space for intramural sports fields, President George Benson says.
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Council snuffs garbage landfill
Plan for construction waste still on table
A Charleston County Council committee snuffed out a decades-old plan Thursday to possibly build a landfill for household garbage in the rural Adams Run community.
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Berkeley schools lose $3 million
The Berkeley County School District lost another $3 million in the latest round of state budget cuts.
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Vets at home at Trident Tech
College uses grant to help ease the way for veterans
Steven Johnson knew of only one way to get a college education without debt, so he enlisted in the Navy.
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Trident Tech sees increased veteran enrollment
Trident Technical College has one of the largest enrollments of veterans among the state's two- and four-year colleges. It was also named one of the nation's "Military Friendly Schools" by G.I. Jobs magazine.
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Hair-pulling report prompted action
Knightsville Elementary School's top three administrators were removed from their posts after failing to report to proper authorities an alleged incident in which a school employee pulled a child's hair, forced him into his seat and grabbed his arm so tightly it left marks.
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School's top 3 leaders ousted
Principal, assistants did not report incident, officials say
Dorchester District 2 removed Knightsville Elementary School's three top administrators last week for failing to report an alleged incident of abuse or neglect by one of the school's teaching assistants.
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District 2 school's administrators removed
KNIGHTSVILLE -- Dorchester District 2 removed Knightsville Elementary School's three top administrators from their positions last week for failing to report to authorities an alleged incident of abuse or neglect by one of the school's teaching assistants, officials said today.
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