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SC's Coastal Growth Engine Just Stalled
For four straight years, South Carolina's three largest coastal districts grew in lockstep. Berkeley added students as housing developments spread through the I-26 corridor. Horry rode the Myrtle Beac...
Shaw Air Force Base Can't Save Sumter's Schools
Shaw Air Force Base pumps $2.05 billion a year into the Sumter region. It supports 9,404 direct jobs and another 5,466 indirect ones. More than 31,000 active-duty personnel, military families, and ret...
Black Enrollment Fell 15% in South Carolina
South Carolina's total public school enrollment grew by 32,220 students between 2015 and 2026, a 4.3% gain. Black enrollment fell by 41,256 over the same period, a 14.9% decline. The state added stude...
How a Small College Built SC's Sixth-Largest School District
Erskine College is a 187-year-old liberal arts school in Due West, South Carolina, a town of fewer than 3,000 people. In 2017, it declared itself a charter school authorizer, a move permitted under st...