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Category Archives: K-12
District 5 Puts Teacher on ‘Restriction,’ Guts Course
Lexington-Richland School District 5 effectively gutted a popular current issues course taught by Dutch Fork High School teacher Kelly Payne earlier this week, pulling the plug on a program that has brought such luminaries as Gov. Mark Sanford, then-Rep. Nikki Haley, … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, K-12, Local Government
Tagged Lexington-Richland School District 5, Mick Zais
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An $85,000 “Learning” Trip for Richland 2 Principals
Richland School District 2 spent about $85,000 to send 31 principals and other administrators on a five-day “learning” trip to a Florida resort in July, The Nerve was informed last week in response to an S.C. Freedom of Information Act request. … Continue reading
Posted in K-12, Local Government, Transparency
Tagged Check Registers, Richland School District 2
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Nearly All S.C. School Districts Have Check Registers Online
South Carolina is now just one school district away from achieving 100 percent compliance with a legislative proviso that requires all districts to post their check registers online. Lexington School District 1 recently converted to a new computer system and … Continue reading
S.C. Forester Wants School Payments Cut
Payments to local school districts from primarily the sale of timber and pine straw on land owned by the S.C. Forestry Commission in those districts would dramatically drop over three years under a proposal by the state’s chief forester. Assuming … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, K-12, Legislation, State Agencies, Taxes
Tagged Rep. Ted Vick, S.C. Forestry Commission
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Superintendents: Earning Their Keep?
If South Carolina’s top-paid school superintendents had to justify their salaries based on their districts’ annual report cards, many of them would have some explaining to do.
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Claim: The Problem is Spending, Not Lack of Revenue
Talbert Black Citizen Reporter A Lexington County resident tells the Lexington 1 school district board that he believes the district needs to curtail its spending. “I don’t think we have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem,” he tells … Continue reading
Lexington 1 Spending Ranks Low Among S.C. Districts
Lexington 1 ranks 50th among South Carolina’s 85 school districts in terms of spending per student, allocating $9,178 per pupil, Chief Financial Officer John Butler said during a June 21 school board meeting. Continue reading
Huge Reserves Untapped in Special Ed Funding Controversy
The S.C. Department of Education had tens of millions of dollars in reserves over the past several years that could have been used to help offset state funding cuts for special education programs – and possibly avert a showdown this month … Continue reading
Lexington 1 Says Student Funding at 1999-2000 Level
Talbert Black Citizen Reporter The S.C. General Assembly has boosted base student spending, but only to the point that it takes the state to the 1999-2000 level, according to Lexington 1 Superintendent Karen Woodward. Woodward, however, says there are some positives in … Continue reading
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Lexington 1 Attributes Funding Decline to Act 388
Lexington School District 1 officials present their budget for the 2011-12 year during a June 21 school board meeting. Continue reading
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