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News for the Carolinas
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Friday, January 25, 2013
The US Education Department says students with disabilities must be given a fair chance to participate in sports, on traditional sports teams or in their own leagues. The order went out to schools across the nation Friday.
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Friday, September 07, 2012
The U.S. Education Department has named five South Carolina schools as models of excellence.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
South Carolina's dropout rate has declined for the third consecutive year, with 365 fewer high school students dropping out compared to the previous school year.
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Monday, June 04, 2012
The U.S. Education Department has denied South Carolina's request to further appeal a $36 million penalty for not spending enough on special education during the economic downturn.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
An English teacher from Johnsonville High School is South Carolina's 2012-13 Teacher of the Year.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
South Carolina Superintendent Mick Zais is asking legislative leaders to add $36 million for special education to the 2012-13 budget after a federal education agency denied his request to delay a funding cut.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011
The South Carolina Education Department says the class of 2011 was offered a record $966 million in college scholarships.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
The South Carolina Department of Education released the district and school ratings from the federal Adequate Yearly Progress as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. The number of elementary and middle schools meeting all of their federal goals last school year was down to just 27 percent. 61 percent of them met all the goals in 2010.
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
State Education Department officials say about 50 employees have left the agency or been let go since May.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
A new report shows fewer students dropped out of South Carolina's public schools last year.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
South Carolina education officials are rushing to spend $75 million in federal funding on special education programs, to avoid losing money.
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
Two Marlboro County schools were among 15 schools across the state that did not meet student learning goals mandated in the South Carolina Accountability Act. Bennettsville Elementary School and Clio Middle School join 17 other schools in the Palmetto Priority Schools project.
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Two dozen used school buses from Alabama will allow South Carolina to take two-decade-old buses off the road.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
A college group says South Carolina is above average in sending high school graduates to college.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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