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This page has information you can use to help guide your child’s education and strengthen partnerships with teachers and other school leaders.
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General Information for Parents and Fast Facts Youth need an awareness of available education and employment opportunities.
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United Way of the Piedmont is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a local board of volunteers and as such is accountable to the local community. Our services cover three counties: Cherokee, Spartanburg and Union. Our mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another
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The composite of local school calendars is a compilation of district start and end dates and holiday information.
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On May 27, 2005, Governor Mark Sanford signed the Education and Economic Development Act (EEDA), new legislation designed to give South Carolinians the educational tools they need to build prosperous, successful futures.
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No Child Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), is now known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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The services provided by the Office of Safe Schools and Youth Services work toward achieving quality education and safer schools through a wide variety of strategies and approaches.
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See Article 7 Qualification for free/reduced meals
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SC Uniform Grading Scale
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The South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs was created to provide the citizenry with a single point of contact for information regarding the State's minority population.
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New Carolina Declaration. We, the tenacious people of New Carolina, declare independence from mediocrity. We will reach beyond past mistakes and build on historic successes toward a bright future that lifts our families, our schools, our businesses. From this day forward, we will demonstrate a new will and forge a new way. With tireless passion, bold leadership and decisive action, we will silence the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics. We will encourage the innovators and teachers, and celebrate the courageous. In doing so, we will become a leader in public education, entrepreneurial success, personal income and quality of life. Each day we will reach for, and push each other, until one day the world will acknowledge us as ‘The New Land of Opportunity’. New energy. New ideas. New action. New Jobs.
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The South Carolina School Improvement Council serves as an advisory committee to a school's principal and faculty.
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Through regional collaboration, TechReadySC™ will build a more competitive workforce in the Upstate by providing innovative services to meet the economy's existing and emerging human performance needs.
Supported by a two-year grant from AdvanceSC [Duke-Energy], TechReadySC’s first major charge is to develop a standardized curriculum among the five Upstate partner colleges leading to specialty certificates and an associate’s degree in the area of mechatronics technology. In addition, innovative marketing and recruiting strategies are being implemented to increase the pipeline of highly-skilled students to retain and attract new industry to the Upstate.
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