South Carolina Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman is canceling the face mask policy in schools. Masks will still be worn on the bus due to the federal requirement.
South Carolina will use money from the settlement of a lawsuit with Volkswagen to purchase more than 200 new school buses.
The federal government has denied South Carolina’s request to skip formal in-person testing at the end of the school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
South Carolina’s education superintendent made a surprise appearance at a hearing to ask House members to not pass a bill that would prevent transgender students from playing on girls sports teams in middle and high school.
Governor Henry McMaster was joined by South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Director Dr. Edward Simmer and State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman to update the state’s vaccination distribution plan.
Debate over whether teachers should be moved into phase 1A of COVID vaccine distribution continued in the Statehouse Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, members of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee met with State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman to discuss the process of vaccinating teachers.
With the South Carolina Senate voting to move teachers and school staff to phase 1A of vaccination distribution, the Department of Education is making plans if that measure become law.
On Monday, South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman announced that she tested positive for COVID-19.
All South Carolina public schools will soon be outfitted with personal protective equipment.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster thanked parents and teachers during a briefing Wednesday about keeping schools closed in South Carolina. McMaster, along with State Superintendent of Education, Molly Spearman, announced that the state’s public K-12 schools will remain closed for the rest of this school year. Both McMaster and Spearman acknowledged the difficulties surrounding the remote learning…
