Ian Grenier

SC's education department is continuing its crackdown on Richland One, rejecting the Columbia school district's plan to recover previously increased oversight.

The State Board of Education voted to remove 7 books from South Carolina schools Nov. 5, confirming recommendations from a board committee's Oct. 31 review.

See the winners of Columbia and Richland County school board election results, and voters elect leaders in Richland 1, Richland 2 and Lexington-Richland 5.

Richland 1 leaders defended their now-rejected plan to respond to the SC education department's financial crackdown over the Vince Ford Early Learning Center.

Chapin and Irmo voters passed a $240 million bond referendum that Lexington-Richland Five will use for its plans to rebuild and reorganize school district.

Richland One Superintendent Craig Witherspoon will resign from the Columbia school district effective June 30, 2025, he and the school board announced Nov. 12.

The separation agreement between Richland 1's school board and Superintendent Craig Witherspoon went beyond the Columbia schools chief's employment contract.

Lexington-Richland Five board member accused another of screaming at her over a campaign mailer that mentioned Chapin teacher whose lesson on race made news.

A new school board has taken over the S.C. Virtual Charter School after its former board leaders were sued by four administrators, but some say it's illegal.

School board races in South Carolina are often effectively partisan elections even if the races are classified as nonpartisan in most of the state's counties.