By Avery G. Wilks
awilks@postandcourier.com
Years ago, I accepted the responsibility of voting. I have always voted, informed as best as I could about all the issues and candidates. I have taken that responsibility very seriously.
Soon I will accept another responsibility to get a COVID-19 vaccine. I will gladly take this seriously, too. Like the rest of this country, I want to see America rise above this pandemic.
If all of those who voted this year (158,432,000) will get vaccinated, it would be almost half the countryâs population. We would be close to the estimated 70%-85% vaccinated needed to gain the desired herd immunity.
Moseley Architects and Cummings & McCrady Announce Merger
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CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Moseley Architects announced plans to merge with Charleston-based architecture firm Cummings & McCrady. The agreement will unite one of the Mid-Atlantic s highest ranking architecture and engineering firms with one of the Southeast s oldest architecture firms.
Cummings & McCrady s strong ties in the region have been forged over many decades. The firm formed in 1957 through a merger of Charleston s largest architectural firm and its oldest engineering firm. Cummings & McCrady currently provides architecture services with a concentration in education, civic and historic preservation.
Hundreds of students miss more than 10 days of school, principal conducts home visits Morningside Middle School Principal Michael White rallied volunteers to visit students homes to get them back in class. (Source: Charleston County School District) By Kaitlin Stansell | December 16, 2020 at 7:38 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 7:38 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - New data shows hundreds of Lowcountry students have missed more than 10 days of class during just the first nine weeks of the 2020-2021 school year.
The Charleston County School District reported 2,500 students who recorded more than ten absences within the first quarter.
The Berkeley County School District reported 1,727 students had failed to show up for more than 10 days of school during the first nine weeks, and Dorchester County School District Two reported 1,419 students had missed the same amount of class time.
Charleston Co. schools awarded $12 million federal grant
VIDEO: Charleston schools awarded $12 million federal grant By Riley Bean | December 16, 2020 at 10:57 AM EST - Updated December 16 at 12:32 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County School District says they have been awarded an Education Innovation & Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education says they sought projects centered on teacher choice in professional learning.
CCSD says it is five-year grant worth $12 million and its purpose is to “generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges.”
The grants encourage entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated ideas which the district says are intended to improve student achievement and rigorously evaluate these innovations.
By Brian Hicks
bhicks@postandcourier.com
Scholarship recipients will be awarded up to $10,000 per year, for a total of $40,000 over four years, to help pay for tuition at four-year colleges and universities across South Carolina.
Anyone who graduates from a Charleston County School District public high school and earns either a state lottery LIFE or Palmetto Fellows scholarship and qualifies for a federal Pell Grant is eligible for the fund. The Meeting Street Scholarship Fund announcement, I have to say, represents a major milestone for public education in the Charleston County School District, said school board Chairman Eric Mack. Every student in our school deserves this path-changing opportunity. It is our responsibility to make sure that more students are college ready and scholarship eligible.