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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 2014
Page
3
Readers offer suggestions from church groups cleaning litter to a vinegar weed killer method. They discuss bypass traffic, Malaysia plane rumors, handicapped access at the library, pension questions for SRS retirees, and a TalkBack hotline process for comments.
Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt urged County Council to raise all Sheriff's Office employees' salaries by 20 percent funded by a dedicated law enforcement millage. He said officers are leaving for other counties and cites a 38 percent jail turnover, proposing a four mil tax to generate about 2.3 million dollars for the raise while noting he will not take a raise himself.
Thousands of South Carolina sophomores will not face HSAP retakes as the General Assembly scrapped the High School Assessment Program after 28 years. The law allows diploma petitions for past non-graduates and shifts current sophomores to new assessments next year, with graduation no longer tied to HSAP.
South Carolina will require all high school juniors to take three WorkKeys tests in 2015 as part of a state assessment plan. ACT WorkKeys expands beyond career and adult education, linking practical math and reading skills to job readiness and college pathways, with a second assessment to be chosen later.
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