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SC Education board approves certification allowing professionals to teach (AUDIO)

April 27, 2010 By

The South Carolina Board of Education has approved a new adjunct teaching certificate that would allow members of local communities to work in schools part-time as certified teachers. Currently, law prohibits public schools from hiring anyone who doesn’t have a teaching certificate to teach a class without a certified instructor being present.

Mark Bounds is Deputy Superintendent For Educator Quality and Leadership with the state’s department of public education.  He says it will help local schools.

(Bounds on adjunct teacher  MP3  4:41)
Bounds on adjunct teachers

The adjunct certificate is good for only one year, but it can be renewed. The new class of instructors would not be allowed to teach more than half the time that regular teachers teach.

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Filed Under: Business, Education, News

Graham offers Homeland Security chief immigration advice

April 27, 2010 By

Sen. Graham in recent SCRN interview

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham talked about immigration today, during testimony by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Let’s get this environment corrected on border security, move forward in a comprehensive fashion, secure the border, protect America, and be fair to the 12 million people but also be firm that we’re never going to have 20 million more in the future. That’s the winning combination.

Graham has been frustrated with the White House’s pushing of immigration reform ahead of his energy bill on the Senate agenda.

Filed Under: Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government

SC residents asked to give input for coast’s potential

April 27, 2010 By

The U-S Minerals Management Service is holding two hearings in North Charleston today. SCRN spoke to Carol Fagot of the MMS from the command center on the Gulf Coast that is dealing with a major oil leak from a BP rig. She says they are laying the groundwork to understand any of the offshore resources that South Carolina may have.

“We ask the public to share with us their concerns and to consider the proposed actions and suggest possible alternatives, so that’s what we are doing in Charleston,” says Fagot. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment & Conservation, News

Full SC Senate debates budget (AUDIO)

April 27, 2010 By

The South Carolina  Senate this afternoon began its consideration of next year’s budget. Finance Chair Hugh Leatherman calls the $5 billion plan “a horrible budget,” and he says in 30 years he has never seen anything like the budget the Senate has before them.

Senate Finance Chair Hugh Leatherman

Leatherman says the 2010-2011 spending plan is down 25 percent from three years ago and funding relies heavily on fees.

(Leatherman discusses funding of education, oversight of fees, and what he calls the “really bad news” of annualizations  MP3  6:44)
Leatherman discusses funding education, oversight of fees, and what he calls the “really bad news” of annualizations MP3

State budget consideration got underway Tuesday in the Senate with each committee chair reporting on the agencies they oversee.

Filed Under: Economy, Legislature, News

Authorities say upstate man killed wife, drank bleach

April 27, 2010 By

Forty-five-year-old Arthur Mims of Duncan is being charged with murder, assault and battery with intent to kill and arson after he shot and killed his wife, 36-year-old Dawn Mims, injured his 16-year-old stepdaughter and set the house on fire early Tuesday morning.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said Mims was captured after a high-speed chase and a four-hour standoff on Interstate 85 in Lexington, North Carolina. 

Cherokee County saw him on I-85 and the Highway Patrol got involved.  North Carolina authorities picked it up and the chase continued above Charlotte.  He said he wasn’t going in alive.

Authorities say Mims was transported to a hospital for treatment after he drank bleach.  His 16-year-old stepdaughter is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Filed Under: Crime & Courts, News
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