An agreement on nuclear training

By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief

There’s a ribbon cutting ceremony at noon today for the University of South Carolina’s Feed the Flock program. In case you missed Jessica’s article last October about the initiative that turns leftovers into ready-to-go meals for Gamecocks in need, click here.

“Anybody that wants to be building or operating these reactors somehow will have to come through us.” - Hossein Haj-Hariri, dean of the University of South Carolina’s engineering school, on the planned nuclear workforce training center.

A conceptual rendering of a proposed nuclear workforce training center on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia. (Illustration courtesy of USC)

USC, Westinghouse sign agreement for nuclear workforce training center

By Jessica Holdman

The University of South Carolina inked a deal with Westinghouse related to the school’s plans for a nuclear workforce training center within its engineering school. The agreement was signed yesterday during the third annual South Carolina Nuclear Summit held at Colonial Life Arena.

Then-Justice John Few, right, talks with people in the lobby of the Statehouse on Feb. 3, a month before dropping his bid for re-election. (Photo by Travis Bell/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)

Former SC Supreme Court justice returns to private law practice

By Jessica Holdman

Former state Supreme Court Justice John Few has officially re-entered private practice after 26 years on the bench. His new law firm, John Cannon Few LLC, will be in downtown Columbia.

A South Carolina law signed May 15 increased oversight of charter schools, their authorizers and the management companies they hire. (File photo by kali9/Getty Images)

COMMENTARY

Accountability strengthens public school choice in South Carolina

By Steven Adamson

This commentary comes from the president of Erskine College, who’s also the board chair of the Chater Institute at Erskine, a major authorizer in South Carolina of charter schools. He writes about this year's charter school law that aims to increase accountability of the public schools. "Our responsibility now is to implement it faithfully," he concludes.

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