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The Lexington One School District board is expected to vote at the end of February on whether to finish off its list of capital projects that were a part of the 2018 bond referendum, or ditch plans to build the final school, an elementary in the River Bluff area, due to soaring costs.Â
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Trustees voted to wait to decide on the policy change until after the final board seat is filled in February's special election.
Beaufort County is the first district in the state to put a bilingual parent liaison in every single school. It's one way the school district is trying to improve academic outcomes for multilingual and Hispanic students, two of the groups struggling most since the start of the pandemic.Â
The S.C. Senate's first priority? Pushing forward a school choice bill. We've broken down everything you need to know about school voucher programs.
Two days after Richland Two's school board voted to accept its superintendent's resignation, the board appointed the district's chief instructional officer as interim superintendent. Â
The Richland County School District Two board voted to accept Superintendent Baron Davis’s resignation during a special called board meeting Jan. 17.
Blackface statues, racial slurs, and monkey calls are just some examples of racism Citadel cadets and faculty say pervades the school.
Parents voiced concern over teacher retention and recruitment on Jan. 10, citing the report's mention of over 80 teacher vacancies.
The bulk of the Charleston County School District board’s most recent meeting was spent discussing various policy amendments.
State law already requires the display of the U.S. and South Carolina flags. Now, schools must also display the U.S. motto and two state mottos.Â
Richland Two met behind closed doors for four hours to discuss the contract of Superintendent Baron Davis as well as a scathing state Inspector General's report. Â
Students from low-income families will benefit from expanded programs included in the federal spending bill recently passed by Congress.Â
Beaufort County is hoping its traveling preschool bus will help share the importance of early childhood education with families.Â
All students can come in for a haircut, but the barbershop is a part of the university’s larger push to specifically recruit and retain Black male students and other students of color.
The hallway connecting all of the classrooms at Greg Mathis Charter School is about 5 feet wide.
The report found that while teacher recruitment efforts have expanded in South Carolina, there’s still little to no impact.
In Florence 1, where roughly 70 percent of students are from low-income families, about 94 percent of high school seniors graduated on-time last school year.
The district will have enough funds to fully pay for a new elementary school in the area without charging taxpayers, officials said.Â
Theresa Griffith filed her intent to withdraw in a letter dated Dec. 18, leaving just two candidates in the race.
York County sued Fort Mill School District 4 in October 2021 trying to make sure the money went only for new school construction and not to pay debt.
The Columbia children's museum received a donation to renovate Eddie, whose towering two-story presence and interactive playground-like organs serve to teach children anatomy lessons.
The big-ticket item is expected on the Charleston County School Board’s committee of the whole meeting agenda on Jan. 9.
At North Charleston High School, community members patrol the hallways and mentor students. It's a nontraditional approach — but it's one that has worked, according to Principal Henry Darby.
South Carolina schools returning to in-person instruction earlier than other states may be a factor in why the state hasn’t lost as many students as other places have.
School board members expect to use general funds to partially offset the inflation-driven cost increases to build a new elementary school in the White Knoll area.Â
Parents gave public comments blasting Richland One School District's response to SC Education Department findings, saying the board's full-speed-ahead approach is letting Superintendent Witherspoon captain a sinking ship.Â
The new board hit a couple of procedural hiccups during the Dec. 12 meetings, and had to pause for explanations about board policy that would have usually been explained by a board parliamentarian.
South Carolina's teen birth rate dropped sharply over 30 years, but still remains one of the highest in the United States.
District 6, which represents West Ashley and parts of North Charleston, does not currently have representation on the CCSD board of trustees.
The district confirmed that Pinckney-Reese has "parted ways" with CCSD.
The accrediting agency increased oversight after investigating complaints that the university gave Superintendent-elect Ellen Weaver preferential treatment. Â
A new elementary school southwest of Columbia, part of a 2018 bond referendum, was originally projected to cost $37 million, but has been revaluated to cost $56 million. The Lexington One board will vote on how to fund the difference.Â
Richland County School District One's administration will ask the board to spend around $31 million next year for a 17,000-square-foot administrative campus southeast of Columbia. The facility would also serve as an early childhood education center.
The new marketing campaign, called Teach at the Top, was in the works even before the pandemic exacerbated teacher shortages statewide. Now, educators say it’s even more critical.
Most S.C. districts aren’t targeting their relief money at certain groups of historically disadvantaged students. A program at Beaufort that is could be a model for others.
A Richland County judge denied a motion on Dec. 2 by attorneys representing former Lexington-Richland Five school board vice chairman Ken Loveless to move forward with a defamation and libel suit against one of the ex-board member's former constituents over comments on a Facebook site she ran.
After a year marred by management rifts and a state investigation, Richland School District Two board members look to work past potential disagreements with each other and the superintendent.
The S.C. Freedom Caucus is suing Charleston County School District over claims schools are indoctrinating students to discriminate against others.
Less than 30 people signed up for the event.Â
Focusing on early childhood learning is essential to Supt. Don Kennedy’s goal of getting all students on reading level by fifth grade.
Women in education were also 70 percent more likely to experience anxiety than men.
Books bans are skyrocketing in South Carolina. A new group plans on fighting them.Â
Elementary education programs for at least two of South Carolina’s biggest universities continue to draw more students, even as conversations about teacher burnout and pay dominate the education space and teacher vacancies set records again in South Carolina.
In Huggins' two decades at CCSD, she has prioritized building relationships with the district's teachers, principals and students.
Two sisters who attend Meadowfield Elementary School in Columbia have sold their lemonade online and at Soda City Farmer's Market for more than two years, and Richland County School District One is including the twins' specialty beverage with the Thanksgiving meals they're providing to families.
Only around 40 Black male teachers, on net, joined the South Carolina workforce each year from the 2016-17 school year to 2020-21.
Since 2018, incumbent Lexington-Richland School District Five board members faced an uphill battle in bids for re-election, with seven of nine who sought re-election being defeated, including three in the 2022 election.
Both the new chair and vice chair of Charleston's school board were backed by Moms for Liberty during the election.
Lawsuit alleges CCSD Deputy Superintendent Anita Huggins and other school district employees ignored reports of a special needs student's abuse.
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