Education

The Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District is accepting applications for the Glenn Alexander Memorial Scholarship.

The $500 scholarship will be presented to a Lancaster County high school senior who will be attending a college, university or technical college and majoring in an agricultural or environmental-related field such as agricultural education, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agronomy, biology, forestry, horticulture, soils or wildlife management.

The deadline to apply is 3 p.m. April 3.

Applications for Leroy Springs student loans are now available for students who are planning full-time attendance at a four-year accredited college or university in South Carolina.

The loans are also available to students who attend York Technical College.

Loans are available for up to $3,000 a year for undergraduates and up to $4,000 a year for medical or dental school students.  

A nationally known motivational speaker visited Lancaster for the second time in four months to speak to concerned residents about the disparity in academic achievement among students.

Mychal Wynn, an educator and author of several books, was the keynote speaker at the first-ever Community Education Summit, a product of the local Closing the Achievement Gap initiative.

A large part of Wynn’s message centered on black children, who, according to local data, perform considerably lower than their white counterparts on standardized tests.

KERSHAW – If you ask Katie Truesdale about the cigarette butts she sees on the grounds at Andrew Jackson High School, she’ll tell you they are just a small representation of the smoking problem that exists among students there.

Truesdale, a junior, was inspired to do something about it after attending a student government rally in Columbia in the fall. There, she learned about the statewide Rage Against the Haze campaign.