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Stuff-a-Bus Sign Ups Take Place This Week

Stuff-a-Bus Sign Ups Take Place This Week

Columbia (WLTX) - The Stuff-a-Bus sign-ups have begun, and they're already drawing a large crowd.

Midlands Family Talks About Recent Ethiopian Adoptions

Midlands Family Talks About Recent Ethiopian Adoptions

Lexington (WLTX) - They speak a different language and were raised in another country, but a midlands family who just adopted two girls says their home is much more complete.

Taking the Fright out of Halloween Night

Taking the Fright out of Halloween Night

Richland County (WLTX) - Richland County deputies are out in full force this week, taking the fright out of Halloween night.

What's Been Lost and Found at the State Fair?

What's Been Lost and Found at the State Fair?

Columbia (WLTX) -- It's the place you forget about until you've forgotten something.  You might be surprised what you can discover at lost and found at the SC State Fair.

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Accreditation Up in the Air For School District

Accreditation Up in the Air For School District

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.

H1N1 Vaccines Offered in Some Schools

H1N1 Vaccines Offered in Some Schools

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

More Districts Use Income, Not Race, as Basis for Busing

More Districts Use Income, Not Race, as Basis for Busing

(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.

Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Up Again

Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Up Again

(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.

Schools' Zero-Tolerance Policies Tested

Schools' Zero-Tolerance Policies Tested

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

SC Receives $1.7 Million Grant

SC Receives $1.7 Million Grant

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.

Georgia Pre-K Gets $1.7 Miliion From Stimulus

Georgia Pre-K Gets $1.7 Miliion From Stimulus

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

School Board Makes Big Cuts, Saves Sports For Now

School Board Makes Big Cuts, Saves Sports For Now

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

Teacher of the Week: Amber Kelley

Teacher of the Week: Amber Kelley

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.

Parents and Teachers Flood County Council Meeting

Parents and Teachers Flood County Council Meeting

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

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