Irmo High School International School for the Arts junior, Alex Blocker, is one of 11 semifinalists named for the 2021 United States Senate Youth Program Scholarship by the South Carolina Department of Education. The final round of the competition will take place in January. Two delegates and two alternates willContinue Reading
The Lexington-Richland School District Five Board of Trustees is seeking more options for the district’s redistricting plan. During a board workshop on January 6, board members asked engineering and planning firm Milone & MacBroom to create two more scenarios that would address the “immediate need” of creating an attendance zoneContinue Reading
The South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM) is now accepting applications for its free virtual after school programs Spark. and ENGAGE. Online applications are available at www.scgssm.org/outreach. Delivered by GSSM’s Center for Science Education & Outreach, Spark. and ENGAGE are after school virtual programs designed to introduceContinue Reading
South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis has recognized Irmo High School’s Sarah Ostergaard as the South Carolina Financial Literacy Master Teacher Program’s Educator of the Month for December. “Ms. Ostergaard’s credentials exemplify her outstanding experience in real world money matters, but it’s her passion for teaching personal finance that’s so impactful,”Continue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five has named Todd Bedenbaugh the new Executive Director of Operations for the district. Bedenbaugh currently serves as the director of student nutrition. In this new role, Bedenbaugh will continue to perform those duties as well as supervising the district’s transportation, facilities and technology departments. He wasContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five has launched an online COVID-19 dashboard. During a special-called meeting November 30, the board approved a motion to have the district create a webpage dashboard for reporting active COVID-19 positive cases and quarantine cases in schools. The motion requires the district to, “Reallocate resources that weContinue Reading
Continuing to provide as normal a school year as possible, East Point Academy’s Boyz 2 Men club shifted their attention towards acts of service this holiday season. The members planned a “Who Canned Santa?” carline food drive benefiting Harvest Hope food bank. The innovative set up enabled students to collectContinue Reading
Chapin High School student, Davis Ricks, has been named a semifinalist for the 2021 class of the Coca-Cola Scholars Program, moving to the next round of the selection process to become a Coca-Cola Scholar and receive a $20,000 college scholarship. Ricks is one of 22 students selected from South CarolinaContinue Reading
By Al Dozier Lexington-Richland School District 5 hopes to have middle and high school students back in their classrooms four days a week by early January. But students will learn entirely online January 4 through January 6 to help ease reopening throughout the district, according to Superintendent Christina Melton’s latest proposal, whichContinue Reading
By investing in a training and recruiting program, Richland County aims to create a talent pipeline to increase the number and diversity of software engineers and meet local demand in the area’s growing technology industry. Create Opportunity Columbia – a public–private partnership between Richland County, the City of Columbia, MidlandsContinue Reading
A Lexington-Richland School District Five school leader has been named among the top principals in the state by the South Carolina Administrators Association (SCASA). Dr. Gerald Gary, principal of Dutch Fork High School, was named the 2021 South Carolina Secondary Level Principal of the Year, during a surprise announcement at hisContinue Reading