Student Loans - Damned if you do, Damned if you don't...

This is not South Carolina specific and defaults on student loans are nothing new - but with the financial crisis and job crunch will there be a rise in risk and a loss in student opportunity?

http://americannewsproject.com/node/157

Plan to cut $488M will stifle higher education

When prison budgets become more important than higher education...

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/558963.html

Richland 2 teacher receives $25,000 Award

Heather Bass, a fourth-grade teacher at Lake Carolina Elementary School, receives the prestigious Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award.

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/557094.html

SC High Schools Fall Short of Federal Goals

SC Schools fall short of their Federal Education Goals in 2008.

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/556401.html

http://ed.sc.gov/topics/assessment/scores/ayp/2008/default.cfm 

Testing and Environment - Cheating or Distraction?

Has systematic cheating or new forms of test monitoring affected student PACT scores in an inner-city school in Charleston, SC?

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/553338.html

NCLB Blue Ribbon School - Lake Carolina Elementary

Lake Carolina Elementary is a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School. The school is part of Richland School District Two and is located in Blythewood, SC. 

More information here.