News Releases

Three South Carolina school districts are among a total of 373 in the United States and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the Annual AP Honor Roll.

State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman has announced the names of the two students who have been selected as delegates to the 57th Annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) that will be held March 2–9, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

The South Carolina Department of Education and Education Oversight Committee has released school and district report cards as part of the state’s merged state and federal accountability system. The 2018 report cards reflect school and district performance during the 2017-2018 school year and contain overall school ratings for the first time since 2014. 

The South Carolina Department of Education has announced the winners of the 2018 Read Your Way to the Big Game Contest - a reading competition that promotes literacy in schools through the Gamecock and Tiger athletic programs.

State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman announced today that the release of the new school report cards, originally scheduled for this Thursday, November 15th, has been postponed. 

IT-oLogy and the South Carolina Department of Education are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2nd Annual IT-oLogy Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge, a statewide competition for grades 3 – 12, offered students and teachers an outlet to create and share projects using technology to solve or bring awareness to an environmental problem in their respective community. 

The College Board released national and South Carolina specific results for their SAT and Advanced Placement assessments. South Carolina students scored fifteen points above the national average on the SAT exam and exceeded the nation on eight out of the top ten tested subjects of Advanced Placement exams.

The public is invited to review textbooks and instructional materials that have been proposed for use in South Carolina’s public schools. The materials will be on display from October 23 through November 23.

The ACT® has released assessment data for 2018 South Carolina high school graduates who took the ACT test. Following the national trend, South Carolina graduates' average composite score slipped from 18.7 in 2017 to 18.3 in 2018. 

The South Carolina Department of Education is unveiling the 2019 South Carolina African American History Calendar in a celebration on October 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, South Carolina. 

South Carolina Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman has announced that five South Carolina schools were recognized by the United States Department of Education as 2018 National Blue Ribbon Schools.

The South Carolina Department of Education released statewide public school results for both Ready to Work (R2W), a new career readiness assessment, and the End of Course Examination Program (EOCEP), tests taken for high school core courses.

Thirty-eight South Carolina school districts will be awarded funding to hire new school resource officers as part of a two million dollar proviso passed by the General Assembly in this year's budget.

The South Carolina Department of Education has released the 2017-2018 school year results for the South Carolina Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (SCPASS) and the South Carolina College-and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY) examinations given in the elementary and middle school grade levels. 

The South Carolina Department of Education has announced the start of the 2018 Read Your Way to the Big Game Contest. 

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that South Carolina is among 20 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands that will receive new federal assistance funding under the Temporary Emergency Impact Aid for Displaced Students program (Emergency Impact Aid). 

The South Carolina Department of Education has released the statewide Report on Student Dropout Rates for the 2016-2017 school year.