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|May 25, 2021 at 5:10 AM EDT - Updated May 25 at 5:10 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Summer is almost here, and the Charleston County Public Library and the Charleston County School District are working together to help students and children read more than ever. This joint initiative is part of the library’s annual “Summer Reading” program, which provides incentives for reading during the summer months. Summer Reading features a fantastic lineup of free virtual online events and programs, o...

One school district wooed parents and students back with pandemic safety demos Five days a week, Charlene Brown sends her 11-year-old daughter Nevaeh Bailey to a brick-and-mortar school to learn, in person, in the classroom. As well as being reassured that Nevaeh is getting educated and socializing with her peers, it means that Brown is able to go to work herself. “I work as a physician office specialist, so I have to work five days a week,” she said. It’s a slice of “normal life” in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County school board approved an academic calendar for the 2021-2022 school year. The board selected Option A which recommends the 2022 spring break the week of April 11 through April 15. The district also added Feb. 18 as an early release day and switched another release day to Sept. 24. The academic year will start on Aug. 18, 2021 and end June 2, 2022. The decision came after the school district asked parents, students, and employees to look over two c...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County school board approved an academic calendar for the 2021-2022 school year. The board selected Option A which recommends the 2022 spring break the week of April 11 through April 15. The district also added Feb. 18 as an early release day and switched another release day to Sept. 24. The academic year will start on Aug. 18, 2021 and end June 2, 2022. The decision came after the school district asked parents, students, and employees to look over two c...

The Charleston County school board approved an academic calendar for the 2021-2022 school year.

The Charleston County School Board says they will be meeting to discuss the ongoing pandemic and new district “learning pods”.

Educators across South Carolina are reaching their breaking point, whether it be from exhaustion or their districts handling of the virus. But amid teacher protests and warnings of another holiday spike in cases following Christmas and New Year’s Eve, some districts have modified their plans. File/Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff By Andrew J. Whitaker awhitaker@postandcourier.com As coronavirus cases reach record levels in South Carolina, conversations surroundi...

For board member Helen Davis Frazier, the issue is a personal one. Frazier worked at several of the district’s alternative reform programs as a guidance counselor and parent coordinator for more than two decades, where she saw firsthand how troubled students were removed from their home schools with the hopes of improving their behavior at a space specifically designed for those who have faced repeated disciplinary sanctions. But during her time with the district, Frazier recalls never see...