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News for the Carolinas
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Friday, December 14, 2012
The Palmetto Academy of Learning and Success broke ground on a new 45,000 square foot facility in Horry County Friday morning.
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Friday, December 07, 2012
State Superintendent of Education Dr. Mick Zais stopped by Lucy T. Davis Elementary in Florence County Thursday evening to discuss the No Child Left Behind waiver the state received in July and the proposed changes that could take effect.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
In 2012, South Carolina students improved on student scored and passage rates in most courses according to data released by the South Carolina Department of Education.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Dr. Mick Zais visited four schools in the Pee Dee on Wednesday.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
South Carolina's top education official stopped on the Grand Strand Friday for the opening ceremony of a new school. State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais toured Coastal Montessori Charter School in Pawleys Island.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
State schools Superintendent Mick Zais says a waiver from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind law provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform education in South Carolina.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
South Carolina's schools chief is asking a federal court to suspend a $36 million penalty against the state and review an order by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
South Carolina State Superintendent Mick Zais visited three schools in Dillon School District Four Monday.
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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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Friday, April 13, 2012
The state education board has approved expanding a program that puts enthusiastic, non-education college graduates into hard-to-fill slots in South Carolina's underprivileged schools.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
South Carolina schools Superintendent Mick Zais is talking at a Columbia school about his proposal for opting out of No Child Left Behind.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
South Carolina Superintendent of Education Mick Zais announced Thursday the dates and locations for a series of community stakeholder meetings about the state's intent to request flexibility from certain requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), commonly called No Child Left Behind.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
South Carolina Superintendent Mick Zais says an updated opinion from the attorney general's office could resolve a dispute with the state Board of Education regarding its authority over the elected schools chief.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Black Legislative Caucus is joining with education and civil rights leaders to protest decisions by Superintendent Mick Zais to refuse to take federal grant money.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Superintendent Mick Zais' drafted proposal for changing how No Child Left Behind works in South Carolina includes giving schools a letter grade for their performance, rewarding high achievers with money, and rating teachers' classroom effectiveness.
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