Dropout Rate Holds Steady in South Carolina Schools
South Carolina high schools report steady dropout rates with 2.7 percent statewide for 1996-97 and 1997-98. Aiken County shows 3.7 percent for 1997-98. District leaders cite rural economic challenges and new programs like Last Chance Academy at Pinecrest Center to steer at risk students toward graduation, while overall four year graduation rose slightly to 66.9 percent.
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South Carolina
Aiken County
S.C
Siym Landis
South Aiken High
Ith
Last Chance Academy
Pinecrest Center
Pinecrest Elementary
Gas line break disrupts school evacuates 300 at Aiken High
Aiken High School evacuated about 300 students yesterday after a 30 inch trench behind the school exposed a two inch gas line. The line was ruptured around 10 25 a.m. when hit by a contractor's equipment. No injuries were reported as crews secured the leak and kept students out for about an hour as a precaution.
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Aiken High School
Kangiéser Electric
Paul Kangieser
Governor Hodges backs MLK holiday amid flag boycott
Black leaders react coolly as Governor Hodges proposes a Martin Luther King Jr holiday if the flag boycott is scrapped. Critics call the offer insulting while the governor says it could foster respect and progress toward removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse. NAACP calls for a boycott starting Jan 1. 80 groups cancel meetings as tensions rise in South Carolina.
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Columbia
Jim Hodges
Joe Darby
Hodges
Ines
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South Carolina
David Swinton
Benedict College
Columbia Urban League
NAACP
Todd Rutherford
Thurmond Graham question SRS layoffs
Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Lindsey Graham question reports of layoffs at the Savannah River Site. DOE officials Rudy and Pescosolido plan Washington meetings to address alleged budget cuts. Funding for the environmental management division rose from 137 million to 339.4 million for fiscal year 2000, with 456 SRS positions affected.
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Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Lindsey Graham
Savannah River
Department of Energy
SRS
Greg Rudy
John Pescosolido
DOE
Washington
Rudy
Coranian Sans Ane Reporen Cals
Congress
Environmental Management Division
Graham
Thurmond
Local family serves country and community through service
Clyde Engle, a Monetta High School graduate, was drafted after Truman announced a Savannah River Plant project in Aiken County. He served in Korea before returning home to a cotton mill job, then reentered the military in the Air Force. His wife Patsy recalls their life changing move to Aiken County for health reasons and their shared service record.
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Clyde Engle
Monetta High School
Savannah River
Harry Truman
Aiken County
Ergle
Selective Service Administration
The
Draft Board
Korea
38Th
Patsy
Mt. Pleasant Church
Monetta
Bluefield
Blue Ridge Mountains
County to challenge judge order to pay inmate medical bills
Aiken County plans to oppose Circuit Judge Marc Westbrook on an order that taxpayers cover medical care for Oscar Sullivan, held without bond after a burglary incident. Sullivan was injured during a chase involving Beth Jackson and three men who detained him until police arrived. He faces charges of burglary first degree assault and battery with intent to kill kidnapping and breaking and entering an automobile.
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Aiken
William Shepherd
Marc Westbrook
Oscar Sullivan
Westbrook
Sullivan
Wallis Alves
Beth Jackson
Ms. Jackson
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Marie H. Diggs
Alexandra
G.L. Brighthorp & Sons
William Baxter Engle
Palmer Funeral Homes
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