Education

During an April 18 ceremony at Eau Claire High School, Richland One honored 528 high school students who have completed career and technical education (CTE) programs of study within the 16 national career clusters. To be CTE Completers, students have to earn three or four units of credit (eight units for cosmetology and barbering) in a CTE program, maintain a […]

Dozens of students from Lexington-Richland School District Five competed and won numerous awards in this year’s University of South Carolina (USC) Regional Science & Engineering Fair held on March 19, including Junior Division—Serenity Sherrod, Tsubaki Shimamura, Mustafa Azhar, Ayaana Shaik, Hannah Beth Berley, Aishani Banerjee, Cayden Mohr, Zealand Swank, Paige Brunson, Karis Perz, Amelia Tuggy, Matthew Wang, Shaina Dashiell, Emma […]

Two Richland One seniors were awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Columbia Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. The non-profit organization is dedicated to empowering black women and girls in the areas of health, education, economic empowerment, and public advocacy. Ameerah Collins of Richland One Middle College and Kassandra McFadden of Columbia High School were two of six […]

Columbia High School senior Tyler Clark has been named the 2024 South Carolina Work-Based Learning Student of the Year by the South Carolina Department of Education and the Midlands Education and Business Alliance (MEBA). It is the first time in recent history that a student from the Midlands has received the state award. Staff from Richland One’s Office of Career […]

Lexington Two Superintendent Dr. Brenda Hafner, last year’s State Teacher of the Year finalist Anne Reamer, and the district’s current Teachers of the Year recently participated in a Lexington Two Teacher Forum Legislative Hill Day at the South Carolina State House in Columbia. Among activities, the group met with representatives from the Palmetto State Teachers Association, including Craig King, director […]

Kindergarteners at Riverbank Elementary School recently gathered on their class rug waiting patiently to meet their newest, if temporary, class members. Teacher O’Neta Poovey carefully lifted out of an incubator six baby chicks, after most had hatched overnight. She placed them on the bright blue paper, as her students held out gentle hands and spoke in soft voices, hoping the […]

Students, teachers, staff, and volunteers came together for Cayce Elementary’s Fourth Unified Day on April 9. As a Unified Champion School through Special Olympics South Carolina, the school’s goal is to provide an opportunity for students with and without disabilities the chance to build confidence, self-esteem, resilience, sportsmanship, and awareness for others.

Paula Hurley, graduation coach at S.C. Whitmore School (a statewide online public charter high school) has been named its 2024 Staff Member of the Year. Lexington-Richland School District Five Career Specialist Sandy Ellisor has been selected as the Midlands Career Specialist of the Year for the 2023-2024 school year by Midlands Education and Business Alliance (MEBA). Katherine Desiderio Garcia, a […]

Two Richland One educators were named 2024 Champions of Education by the University of South Carolina’s College of Education. Both were honored during the university’s Champions of Education Gala March 28. H.B. Rhame Elementary School reading interventionist Stephanie Johnson received the Veteran Teacher Award, which is given to a teacher who has been in the profession for at least 15 […]

A Brookland-Cayce High School student has been selected to receive a 2024-2025 National Security Language Initiative for Youth Scholarship (NSLIY) through the U.S. State Department. Senior Zoe Partin will participate in the intensive language summer study program administered by the American Councils for International Education for Chinese (Mandarin), spending this summer in Hsinchu, Taiwan. According to the website, the U.S. […]