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Tuesday’s letters: The truth about our schools

June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The district, and every school within the district, received an excellent or good rating for absolute performance or performance growth on the state’s latest report card. We provide choices to families and children. We offer choices of schools, single-gender programs, magnet schools, virtual online courses, early college, advanced placement, dual enrollment, attendance recovery, credit recovery, and exemplary programs for gifted and special-needs children. We offer summer programs to students who may need academic assistance. The list of choices in academics, arts, extracurricular activities, athletics and leadership could fill a book.

The District 5 community expects great schools for its children, and we strive to meet these expectations.

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SC superintendent to discuss charter schools on TV

March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The program titled “Public Charter Schools: Successes and Challenges” will air at 5 p.m. Sunday. The one-hour show is part of ETV’s “In our Schools” series.

Educators and community leaders will join Zais on the panel. Others will include the superintendent of the statewide charter district, charter school teachers, a charter school principal and a parent of 2 students in an online charter school.

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Mick Zais One-on-One: New Superintendent’s Vision

March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

To Zais, the change would mean the power of taxpayer dollars would be in the hands of consumers, meaning the student and their parents could decide where the student would attend: a magnet school, a charter school, or a virtual school. It would open options and make way for achievement, in Zais’ opinion.

Zais says charter schools are free from the bureaucratic requirements that handicap traditional schools; however, South Carolina’s statewide charter district is the lowest-funded district in the nation.

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S.C. legislature in brief

February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

CHARTER SCHOOLS: The House approved a bill meant to increase charter schools statewide without forcing school districts to cough up the money. The House voted 85-32 on a measure designed to provide more money to charter schools organized under the statewide district, which get state and federal, but no local, money. The original bill required school districts to send local property taxes to charter students within their borders. But lawmakers agreed to a change that leaves the funding to the state. The bill gives more options for charters to form and allows for boys-only and girls-only schools. The House budget-writing committee approved spending up to $25 million on schools in the statewide charter in 2011-12, with schools that have buildings getting more per student than virtual schools.

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Budget writers OK charter funds

February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

COLUMBIA — Legislative budget writers in the cash-strapped state want to make a $25 million investment in South Carolina charter schools, in a move intended to help several stay open in the coming months.

The House Ways and Means Committee agreed late Wednesday to carve out of the draft $5.2 billion budget $1,700 for every child in a virtual charter school within the statewide Public Charter School District above the base rate the state pays for every child in public school. Students in the charter district’s brick-and-mortar schools will get $3,250 more for their education.

The decision came as the committee spent hours crunching numbers for the budget year that begins July 1.

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Principal: Spartanburg Charter School seeks sustainability

February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This week, South Carolina lawmakers are expected to pick up debates surrounding charter school funding options that charter school leaders say are imperative to the long-term success of the schools.

A House budget-writing panel voted last week to give brick-and-mortar charter schools organized under the South Carolina Public Charter School District an additional $4,000 per student in the 2011-12 school year. Virtual charter would get an extra $2,500 per student. The one-time allocations would be on top of the base student cost, a figure given to districts for every student. Base student cost for the next school year is being estimated at $1,617.

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Lawmakers predict belt-tightening for education

February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Railing against one often-quoted study of a low 50 percent graduation rate, District 95 Rep. Jerry Govan said his colleagues should “stop allowing them to drive the debate” and to “stop repeating wrong information.”

The rate is less than 30 percent, he said.

Increasing funding for charter schools, including virtual schools, is the “worst thing” the legislature can do, Cobb-Hunter said.

“I can’t comprehend how we can justify spending $20 million on charter schools when our public schools are so woefully underfunded,” she said.

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Greenville County Schools chief honored with national award finalists

February 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Fisher was cited for her “vision and determination” in the construction of 70 new schools across the district, plus the opening of the state’s first elementary school with a fully integrated engineering curriculum: Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering.

The judges also pointed to Greenville County’s students “consistently outperforming their national peers on high-stake tests.”

They said Fisher helped meet the needs of a diverse student population “by championing programs such as virtual school and twilight school, and offering a variety of choice programs that provide opportunities for learning while recognizing the important role of extracurricular activities in developing an individual’s full potential.”

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Districts, charter schools face off

February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The 11 state-approved charter schools say some new funding solution needs to be found fast if they are to survive.

Those schools include popular virtual charter schools, where students take courses online, and high-performing brick-and-mortar charters.

For example, Spartanburg Charter School scored well on its 2010 report card and has a waiting list for several of its grades. But, because it gets no property tax money from the local school district, the school’s future is unsure despite winning $500,000 in an online contest from the Kohl’s department store chain.

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Horry County talks charter schools

February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

CONWAY — Charter school law and funding items topped the list of issues that the Horry County Schools’ Legislative Platform Committee wants to change with the help of local legislators.

The committee, formed in January by the Horry County Board of Education, held its second meeting to identify issues important to the area, not the state, and to consider action plans that can initiate change in the Statehouse that will be favorable to Horry County’s educational system.

The charter school bill proposed this year was of great concern to the committee on several fronts. According to a report from lobbyist Mark Kelley, the bill aims to change the weightings for charter school student funds. With more than 500 Horry County students attending virtual schools, the school district would stand to lose about $2 million in state funding.

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