School Watch

Winnsboro (WLTX) -- The Fairfield County School District is under review by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and that could mean trouble for some college admissions.

Pelion (WLTX) -- The H1N1 vaccine is being offered in some Midlands public schools this week, including schools in Lexington School District 1.

(USA Today) - Struggling to improve schools that have large populations of poor and minority students and under legal pressure to avoid racial busing, a small but growing group of school districts are integrating schools by income.

(AP) - A new study says at least 23 heads of private colleges and universities earned a total of more than $1 million each in fiscal 2008.

(USA Today) - Parents and elected officials across the USA are demanding that schools slacken zero-tolerance policies that are meant to reduce violence.

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina State's Environmental Policy Institute has received a $1.7 million federal grant to help boost the number of its students studying math, science and engineering.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Pre-kindergarten classrooms across the state are getting $1.7 million in federal stimulus money.

Kershaw County (WLTX) - As promised the Kershaw County School District cut hundreds of thousand dollars from their budget Wednesday night.

Columbia (WLTX) -- Autism affects 1.5 million Americans and is the fastest-growing developmental disability, but one Columbia teacher says the diagnosis doesn't mean children can't grow and learn.

Kershaw County (WLTX) - The Kershaw County council chambers couldn't hold the number of people fired up over school funding Tuesday night.