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1 week ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
Limestone University will close its campus at the end of the semester, college officials informed students and staff April 16. Limestone spokesman K.C. Barnhill said the school will end in-person classes at the end of spring semester, affecting about 1,000 students. Also ending are Limestone athletics, but the school will continue to offer online classes and will continue as a charter school authorizer.
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1 week ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — Special education teachers, mental health counselors and behavior therapists are the centerpiece of a budget proposal that could increase operating costs next year by $25 million in the state's largest school district. The Greenville County Schools spending plan prioritizes the growing needs of its more than 12,500 disabled students while also adding teachers and support staff for the hundreds of new children who will be enrolling in the fall, Superintendent Burke Royster said.
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1 week ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — As college and university administrators across the country capitulate to government demands — even as some legal experts say those demands are unconstitutional — students and faculty on a handful of South Carolina campuses are digging in.
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — Sports and music programs mostly have bounced back from losses during the COVID pandemic, but some programs remain behind — particularly high-school orchestra and middle school softball, a new Greenville County Schools report shows. The Post and Courier’s Education Lab focuses on issues and policies affecting South Carolina’s education system.
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — Sports and music programs mostly have bounced back from losses during the COVID pandemic, but some programs remain behind — particularly high-school orchestra and middle-school softball, a new Greenville County Schools report shows. The Post and Courier’s Education Lab focuses on issues and policies affecting South Carolina’s education system.
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2 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — South Carolina's daycares — economic engines for working parents and safe, educational spaces for children — last year bucked a national trend of critical understaffing, according to a recent state report. Turnover in the childcare sector here was 8 percent in 2024, compared to national turnover of 15 to 25 percent, the report said. The South Carolina Department of Social Services, the agency that regulates childcare centers, largely credits one thing. Salaries.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
CHESNEE — After a five-month search, Spartanburg School District 2 is bringing home an Upstate native to run the schools in northeast Spartanburg County. Spartanburg 2's school board has hired Clemson graduate Tim Newman away from the top post he has held for seven years at Darlington County Schools, a high-poverty district of 8,000 students in the state's Pee Dee region. The Post and Courier’s Education Lab focuses on issues and policies affecting South Carolina’s education system.
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3 weeks ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — With teacher vacancies statewide still exceeding 1,000 in South Carolina, career-change programs for would-be educators are surging in popularity across South Carolina. But do they work? The Riley Institute at Furman University this week honored a program at Columbia College — a private, 2,000-student college in Columbia — for its success recruiting and training more than 100 people into the teaching field, including several who went on to be named teachers of the year.
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1 month ago | 
postandcourier.com | Valerie Nava |Ian Grenier |Anna Mitchell
Anna B. Mitchell is a Greenville-based investigative reporter for the Post and Courier's Education Lab team. A licensed English and social studies teacher, Anna covers education in the Upstate and collaborates with other reporters for coverage on statewide education trends. She studied history at the University of North Carolina, journalism at the University of Missouri, and holds an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg.
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1 month ago | 
postandcourier.com | Anna Mitchell
GREENVILLE — Greenville Technical College, the state's second largest public community college, has chosen a new leader, and it's another Miller. Larry Miller will take over as the tech school's third president in its 63-year history once current president, Keith Miller, retires on July 1, 2025. Keith Miller — no relation to Larry — has been Greenville Tech's president since 2008.
