State lottery expands college aid in South Carolina
Gov Hodges signs a bill to fund LIFE Scholarships allowing about 21,000 students at four year colleges to attend tuition free for up to 30 credits plus some fees and up to 300 for books. The measure also creates a free two year college option funded by the lottery and clarifies Pell grant use and eligibility rules.
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Columbia
S.C
Jim Hodges
Commission On Higher Education
Charlie FitzSimons
Hodges
Statehouse
FitzSimons
State Technical College Board
Lawrence Ray
Technical Colleges
Ray
Tech
Program helps teachers learn technology
Clinton South Carolina AP reports Presbyterian College hosts the Teaching and Technology Institute. Ninety five teachers from across the state enroll in weeklong sessions covering basic presentation graphics web page design and video production for Kindergarten through 12th grade. The program costs 150 per person with meals lodging and materials. teachers earn three recertification credits. Sponsors include the Department of Education Bovis Lend Lease and local payments.
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Clinton
S.C
South Carolina
Presbyterian College
Teaching and Technology Institute
Cynthia Simmons
Thornwell High School
Pick
Ens
Beaufort
Myrtle Beach
Augusta
Norman Scarborough
Department of Education
Bovis Lend Lease
Columbia
Police Briefs Highlight Cyber Stalking and Counterfeit Case
Gaston County police arrest 28 year old Francis Thomas Moore III on cyber stalking charges for harassing a woman by email. Arrest warrant cites repeated electronic messages intended to annoy harass and threaten. Moore released from Gaston County Jail. Also, Kings Mountain man Tommy Lishawn Smith, 33, accused of printing 70 counterfeit one cent bills on a home computer and using two at local stores. Smith faces two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and accessing a computer. he was released from custody.
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Gastonia
Francis Thomas Moore III
E. Hudson Blvd
Tricia Henneman
Moore
Gaston County
Kings Mountain
Tommy Lishawn Smith
Piedmont Lane
Smith
State superintendent warns SC bus fleet faces cash crash
South Carolina Education Department faces a looming March deadline as funds for repairing and fueling the 5000 bus fleet run dry. Inez Tenenbaum says the legislature failed to provide new money or a replacement program, with fuel costs rising and buses aging beyond safe use. The department once relied on year-end leftovers but a budget order drained those funds. Some oldest buses may be cannibalized for parts while efforts to boost mechanic pay and seek lottery-backed funding continue amid district shortages.
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Columbia
S.C
South Carolina Education Department
Inez Tenenbaum
Tenenbaum
General Assembly
South Carolina
House
Senate
State Budget and Control Board
Education Department
House Education and Public Works Committee
Ronald Townsend
R-Anderson
Townsend
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