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SC schools are taking a $3.2B hit from corporate tax breaks, report says

RT @UofSCCRC: In April 1969, over thirty students at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina led a takeover of the Library-Administrati…

RT @MaayanSchechter: A Storied Newspaper Prepares to Print Its Own Obituary

SC Senate passes K-12 voucher bill pulling from lottery profits Senators changed the income cap and scholarship amount, bringing it closer to the program halted by SC’s high court From @sky_latte_ via @SCDailyGazette

The faculty in SC schools has gotten more diverse in recent years, but the state's educators are still significantly more white than its students are — as attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts continue to mount. W/@EdReporterSC+@ValerieCNava:

RT @IAmNickReynolds: After nearly two weeks of debate, South Carolina Senate passes lottery funded school choice vouchers on second reading…

RT @kalenalumpkins: More on Onis Konanbanny's upcoming decision⬇️

One of the big stories out of Columbia schools this year will be a new superintendent in Richland One, with Craig Witherspoon set to resign in June. The board got things rolling this week, hoping to have a new leader in time for his departure. More:

RT @PCMyrtleBeach: FBI and SLED search home of former County Council member in Conway

RT @kalenalumpkins: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️CB @OnisKonanbanny from Heathwood Hall tells me his top 3 schools ahead of his signing on Feb. 4. South Carol…

A mixed bag in South Carolina's results from the Nation's Report Card. Positive news compared to other states, but a decline in already low-performing students furthers an already-serious achievement gap. @EdReporterSC leading w/@ValerieCNava and I:

ICYMI: the NAACP sued state Supt. Ellen Weaver and a pair of Lexington County school districts yesterday, arguing that a provision in the SC budget about teaching race is unconstitutional. Lots of local Columbia angles, too. Read it here (for free!):

RT @stevanzetti: Last year, the student newspaper at UTD was dissolved after staff went on strike due to the firing of the editor in chief.…

RT @WhitakerPhotos: Charleston looks pretty good in the snow.

Athletics-focused SC charter school expanding to second Columbia-area campus More:

RT @em1lystone: the downgrade from last year to this year is crazy

RT @isaacfeldberg: Biggest Oscar snub? Clarence Maclin in supporting actor for SING SING. Going toe-to-toe with Colman Domingo is no small…

RT @kylebuchanan: No CHALLENGERS in original score... I feared days like this would come

Columbia-area schools will be closed again tomorrow -- but I imagine that morning won't be quite as exciting for the kids as today was.