Maura Turcotte

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Some SC charter districts get millions to keep struggling schools afloat

May 30, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Hillary Flynn |Maura Turcotte |David Sheingold

This investigation was supported with funding from the Data-Driven Reporting Project. The Data-Driven Reporting Project is funded by the Google News Initiative in partnership with Northwestern University | Medill. Charter schools were meant to fix South Carolina’s historically troubled education system. But some have been cited for fraud, misappropriating public funds, manipulating grades and violating their neediest students’ rights.
Charter Institute at Erskine falls short of other school groups in some benchmark subjects

May 30, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Hillary Flynn |Maura Turcotte |David Sheingold

This investigation was supported with funding from the Data-Driven Reporting Project. The Data-Driven Reporting Project is funded by the Google News Initiative in partnership with Northwestern University | MedillThe Charter Institute at Erskine’s schools underperformed in elementary and middle school math compared to other groups of South Carolina schools, according to a Post and Courier analysis of S.C. Department of Education data.
How a Florida principal with a controversial history became a SC charter school kingpin

Apr 11, 2024 | shorturl.at | Hillary Flynn |Maura Turcotte |Brandon Lockett

This investigation was supported with funding from the Data-Driven Reporting Project. The Data-Driven Reporting Project is funded by the Google News Initiative in partnership with Northwestern University | MedillThe corporation that upended South Carolina’s charter school universe took root here after its founder left Florida’s education system following numerous academic and financial scandals.
How a Florida principal with a controversial history became an SC charter school kingpin

Apr 11, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Hillary Flynn |Maura Turcotte |Brandon Lockett

This investigation was supported with funding from the Data-Driven Reporting Project. The Data-Driven Reporting Project is funded by the Google News Initiative in partnership with Northwestern University | MedillThe corporation that upended South Carolina’s charter school universe took root here after its founder left Florida’s education system following numerous academic and financial scandals.
CCSD will start superintendent search in 2024, but a controversial rule remains in place

Jan 7, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Maura Turcotte

The Charleston County school board could soon start discussions about launching a search for a new top administrator, but a board rule that limits the district superintendent’s hiring abilities might pose further problems for the already troubled district. The school board unanimously passed the rule on May 18, while temporary superintendent Don Kennedy led the district. Per the rule, the superintendent cannot hire, fire or move employees within the central office without board approval.
Charleston school board plans how to sustain programs funded by pandemic relief dollars

Dec 13, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Maura Turcotte

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Charleston schools hope math coaching expansion will add up to success

Dec 10, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Maura Turcotte

Education Lab reporterMaura Turcotte is a reporter for The Post and Courier’s Education Lab. She previously worked as a news assistant for The New York Times reporting on COVID-19 in correctional facilities and detention centers.
Charleston school board overhauls Health Advisory Committee, again

Nov 14, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Maura Turcotte

The Charleston County School Board overhauled much of the district’s Health Advisory Committee — yet again. There are 10 new members on the 13-person panel that reviews the district’s health and sexual education curriculum. That includes four new appointees to replace members ousted by the school board in a narrow vote. Another six people were added to fill vacancies on the committee.
Charleston school board overhauls Health Advisory Committee, again

Nov 14, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Maura Turcotte

The Charleston County School Board overhauled much of the district’s Health Advisory Committee — yet again. There are 10 new members on the 13-person panel that reviews the district’s health and sexual education curriculum. That includes four new appointees to replace members ousted by the school board in a narrow vote. Another six people were added to fill vacancies on the committee.
Racial gaps in math have grown. A school tried closing theirs by teaching all kids the same classes

Oct 26, 2023 | messenger-inquirer.com | Maura Turcotte

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school's students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the math department at Blythewood High School, intervened with an experiment.

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