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DuBard: It’s elementary: It should be easy to help schools
Can you remember the name of your first-grade teacher? Recess? How about the moment that you understood long division? South Carolina’s public schools not only produce the workforce driving our economic future; they’re also a rich repository of memory and a source of gratitude for their life-changing impact.

August 30, 2010 | Read More

Initiatives aimed at helping schools, communities
In trying economic times, schools both provide and reach out for help.

August 5, 2010 | Read More

South Carolina joins other states in adopting Common Core math, reading standards
South Carolina is now the 25th state to adopt a national set of academic benchmarks that detail the math and reading skills students will learn as they move up through public school grades.

July 15, 2010 | Read More

Upstate Teacher Wins Island Cruise
South Carolina's Teacher of the Year recently received a five-night Bahamas cruise and now a second lucky teacher is getting a holiday in the sun as well.

June 22, 2010 | Read More

Teacher's speech may help keep jobs
Chalk one up for people who say one person can make a big difference in petitioning big government. Durham schoolteacher's Gina Frutig's impassioned two-minute plea to protect public education shook up an otherwise unmemorable public hearing by House budget-writers last week.

June 3, 2010 | Read More

How Race to the Top is recasting education reform in America
States are submitting their applications for Round 2 of the Obama administration's $4.3 billion Race to the Top program. States are undertaking major education reform to qualify.

June 2, 2010 | Read More

A Tale of Two Students
In middle school, Ivan and Laura shared a brief romance and a knack for trouble. Then they parted ways. Now he is college-bound and she isn't. How different schools shaped their paths.

May 31, 2010 | Read More

Kentucky teacher evaluations may be tied to student performance
Kentucky's public teachers and principals would see their yearly evaluations tied partly to their students' performance, under a proposal that state education officials hope will boost the state's chances of receiving up to $175million in federal education funding, according to a draft obtained by The Courier-Journal.

May 31, 2010 | Read More

S.C. teachers to face cuts in many ways
South Carolina teachers are understandably confused about what’s coming their way next school year.

May 9, 2010 | Read More

School Welcomes Home New SC Teacher of the Year

April 30, 2010 | Read More

Greenville's Kelly Nalley Named South Carolina Teacher of the Year for 2010-2011
In her first days as a classroom teacher, there were times when Kelly Nalley was so overwhelmed that she found herself crying in a supply closet. But her determination, hard work and a renewed sense of optimism paid off tonight in a big, big way. Nalley, a Spanish teacher at Fork Shoals School in Greenville, was named South Carolina Teacher of the Year Wednesday night. State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex made the surprise announcement at a privately funded celebration at the ...

April 29, 2010 | Read More

Greenville Teacher Named SC's Top Educator!

April 28, 2010 | Read More

Race to the Top Petition
After finishing in 6th place among 40 states, the South Carolina Department of Education is making a second try for Race to the Top, a high-profile competitive federal grant program that could provide our public schools with $175 million over four years.

April 21, 2010 | Read More

Aiken High School's teacher of the year receives book donation from Bojangles'
Thanks to a Bojangles' statewide promotion, Aiken High School is getting a boxful of new books for its media center. At a ceremony at Bojangles' restaurant in North Augusta, company representatives presented Aiken High German teacher Lisa Lader with the books. She is the current Aiken County School District's teacher of the year, and Bojangles' is sponsoring the 2010 Teacher of the Year program in South Carolina in partnership with S.C. Future Minds, the organization coordinating the ...

April 14, 2010 | Read More

Bojangles' Celebrates 100 Stores and More Than 30 Years In South Carolina With Statewide Tour
"Everyone has a teacher they can thank for at least one thing they've achieved in life. By partnering with South Carolina Future Minds' Teacher of the Year Program, Bojangles' is able to thank some of the state's best teachers for all that they do. This program gives us the chance to honor the many great achievements these 85 teachers have made in shaping the future of South Carolina's children," said Randy Kibler.

March 23, 2010 | Read More

Teacher of the Year honored by Bojangles
A new Teacher of the Year for the Union County School District will be named on Monday evening at the board of trustees meeting. But that doesn’t mean the district — along with Bojangles and South Carolina Future Minds — couldn’t take a moment Friday morning to honor the current reigning Teacher of the Year for the district — Anna Roark.

March 22, 2010 | Read More

Bojangles’ Strengthens Teacher of the Year Program
In partnership with South Carolina Future Minds, Bojangles’ is sponsoring this year’s Teacher of the Year program.

March 10, 2010 | Read More