Education Headlines
Jessica Barnes
Coker College sophomore Jessica Barnes of Moncks Corner is the inaugural recipient of the college’s Sparrow Scholarship that supports emerging student leaders.
Barnes is a graduate of Berkeley High School.
Barnes is a graduate of Berkeley High School.
Charleston Southern University has announced that Katharine Baxley of Moncks Corner has been inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta, an International Honor Society, in Sociology.
The purpose of the honor society is to promote human welfare through the association of a fellowship group interested in developing scientific knowledge that may be applied to the solution of social problems.
The purpose of the honor society is to promote human welfare through the association of a fellowship group interested in developing scientific knowledge that may be applied to the solution of social problems.
Merle Weber, visual arts coordinator for the Berkeley County School District, will retire this year. She has held the position for 18 years.
For 32 years, Merle Weber has devoted her life to art education.
Hired as the Berkeley County School District's first visual arts coordinator 18 years ago, Weber oversees 42 art teachers in elementary, middle and high schools. Prior to her administration position, she taught art for 15 years in Orangeburg and Berkeley counties.
Hired as the Berkeley County School District's first visual arts coordinator 18 years ago, Weber oversees 42 art teachers in elementary, middle and high schools. Prior to her administration position, she taught art for 15 years in Orangeburg and Berkeley counties.
Stratford High School costs the school district $496,322 in electric, water and sewer costs per year.
The school is a heavyweight of utility usage in the county, and one of a handful of other schools tipping the scale of upwards of $300,000 or more per year.
The school is a heavyweight of utility usage in the county, and one of a handful of other schools tipping the scale of upwards of $300,000 or more per year.
Berkeley Elementary School students gave collected "pop tops" to a representative from the Ronald McDonald House.
Berkeley Elementary School students in Ms. Philyaw and Mrs. Yingling’s classes recently collected over 13,000 “pop tops” for the Ronald McDonald House in Charleston, and recycled cans to help their environment.
Not only did these kids participate in the Berkeley County Kids Who Care Project, they also sent smiles to the families in need at the Ronald McDonald House by incorporating writing skills into their projects.
Not only did these kids participate in the Berkeley County Kids Who Care Project, they also sent smiles to the families in need at the Ronald McDonald House by incorporating writing skills into their projects.
Cane Bay Elementary received its low-bid contractors for the building and finishing package, electrical package, and heating, ventilating, air conditioning and plumbing package.
The district will spend a base bid of $9,774,961, with alternative expenditures adding as much as $497,561, for the building and finishing package on the school. Martin Engineering Inc. won the bid. Hunter Bros., which won the electrical package bid, will bill the district $1,895,000, with alternative expenditures adding as much as $52,000 to the final cost. R. C. Jacobs Plumbing, Heating and Air won the HVAC and plumbing package at $2,936,700. R. C. Jacobs did not list any alternative expenditures.
The district will spend a base bid of $9,774,961, with alternative expenditures adding as much as $497,561, for the building and finishing package on the school. Martin Engineering Inc. won the bid. Hunter Bros., which won the electrical package bid, will bill the district $1,895,000, with alternative expenditures adding as much as $52,000 to the final cost. R. C. Jacobs Plumbing, Heating and Air won the HVAC and plumbing package at $2,936,700. R. C. Jacobs did not list any alternative expenditures.
The following J.K. Gourdin Elementary School students were named to the school’s third nine weeks honor roll.
The honor roll consists of students who achieved A’s and B’s.
The honor roll consists of students who achieved A’s and B’s.
District 2007 Teacher of the Year Harold Tabor
After an exhaustive selection process the Berkeley County School District Teacher of the Year was announced at Trident Technical College Thursday morning.
Berkeley High School Special Education teacher Harold Tabor won the accolade, which came with an Oscar-inspired miniature statue.
Berkeley High School Special Education teacher Harold Tabor won the accolade, which came with an Oscar-inspired miniature statue.
Five Berkeley County schools are among 141 South Carolina elementary and middle schools honored statewide for reducing the achievement gap among students of differing economic, racial and ethnic groups by the S.C. Education Oversight Committee.
The schools make up about 16 percent of schools in the state.
The schools make up about 16 percent of schools in the state.
The Berkeley County School Board has approved the 2008-2009 School Rural Mileage Incentive.
The board met in regular session last week at the district office in Moncks Corner.
The board met in regular session last week at the district office in Moncks Corner.
Learn the skills you need to become a private investigator with Trident Technical College’s Private Investigator Certificate Program.
Offered by TTC’s Division of Continuing Education and Economic Development, the program consists of four courses. Each course is approximately seven weeks long and is offered entirely online. Upon completion of the program, students have the skills necessary to immediately begin a career as an investigator.
Offered by TTC’s Division of Continuing Education and Economic Development, the program consists of four courses. Each course is approximately seven weeks long and is offered entirely online. Upon completion of the program, students have the skills necessary to immediately begin a career as an investigator.
The dark, silent streets are interrupted by the flashing lights and the thrum of an engine. In the cold, damp morning, children plod wearily up the school bus steps and into the temporarily lit bus seats.
As they pass 22-year veteran bus driver Barbara Middleton, the kids give her a perfunctory and mumbled salutation. Taking their seats, the children are again engulfed in darkness as the bus takes off for another stop.
As they pass 22-year veteran bus driver Barbara Middleton, the kids give her a perfunctory and mumbled salutation. Taking their seats, the children are again engulfed in darkness as the bus takes off for another stop.
Berkeley County Supervisor of Transportation Glenn Dyches and his seven-man team are "spread as thin as possible trying to repair as many repairs that need to be done" to Berkeley County school buses.
With an aging fleet and less two employees, bus maintenance can fall through the cracks or must wait a while to get done.
With an aging fleet and less two employees, bus maintenance can fall through the cracks or must wait a while to get done.
The Berkeley County Education Association Retirement Social will take place on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 6 p.m. at Gilligan's Restaurant in Goose Greek.
All Berkeley County Education Members are invited to attend. RSVP Lynda Hooker-Ravenell at (843) 494-8078 by April 20th.
All Berkeley County Education Members are invited to attend. RSVP Lynda Hooker-Ravenell at (843) 494-8078 by April 20th.
Three students have been named winners in the 2008 Pet Essay Contest sponsored by The Humane Society of South Carolina and Southern Paws & Tails magazine.
The winners are: first place, Ky’asia Brown, a fifth grade student at Cainhoy Elementary School in Huger; second place, Alaina Lane, a fifth grade student at Cainhoy/Elementary School in Huger; and third place, Jack Monroe, a second grade student from the Center for Knowledge in Blythewood, SC.
The winners are: first place, Ky’asia Brown, a fifth grade student at Cainhoy Elementary School in Huger; second place, Alaina Lane, a fifth grade student at Cainhoy/Elementary School in Huger; and third place, Jack Monroe, a second grade student from the Center for Knowledge in Blythewood, SC.