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FOCUS: Battle for state’s top education job getting started now

FOCUS: Battle for state’s top education job getting started now

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  State Superintendent Molly Spearman’s announcement last week that she wouldn’t seek reelection was an early surprise, but not particularly unexpected.  

She’s made progress in upgrading the state’s perennially limp education system the last few years by helping to provide much-needed boosts to teacher pay, update the school bus fleet and consolidate some small districts, which should lead to better education in those areas.

But in the recent months of the pandemic, she struggled with her own Republican Party in efforts to keep students and teachers safe. Whether it was about mask mandates or virtual schools, the General Assembly and Gov. Henry McMaster always seemed to be poking their fingers in school business that should have been left to the state’s constitutional officer elected to deal with schools.

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NEW for 11/1: Education race, Johns’s amazing art, DIG SOUTH’s return

NEW for 11/1: Education race, Johns’s amazing art, DIG SOUTH’s return

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Battle for state’s top education job getting started now
COMMENTARY, Brack: The creativity of Jasper Johns is mind-blowing
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
NEWS BRIEFS: DIG SOUTH Tech Summit to return in May 2022
FEEDBACK:  Tips to avoid news indigestion helpful
MYSTERY PHOTO:  Bold building
CALENDAR:  Learn more about climate change at Nov. 10 event

Editor’s Note:  Today’s issue marks the beginning of the 14th year of publication of Charleston Currents.  Happy birthday to us!

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