Liz Carey

• Insurers predict health-care reforms will increase costs Published 09/02/2010 at 5:31 p.m.

  Health insurance analysts say pending changes under the health-care reform act could have unintended consequences.

• District votes to give teachers money for supplies Published 08/31/2010 at 9:03 p.m. 2 Comments

  Trustees of Anderson School District 1 voted Tuesday to provide up to $100 to each of the district’s teachers for classroom supplies.

• Veggie tales: A tomato plant bigger than life Published 08/31/2010 at 5:10 p.m.

  Weldon Diseker has only one tomato plant. But that one plant is a doozy.

• Anderson School District 5 teacher named finalist for presidential award Published 08/31/2010 at 4:34 p.m.

  An Anderson County teacher is one of only six educators in South Carolina to be named a finalist for a prestigious national award.

• District 1 board to discuss hiring policies Published 08/30/2010 at 6:43 p.m. 1 Comment

  Job candidates would be checked through registry of sex offenders

• Midway Elementary leads the way Published 08/30/2010 at 6:31 p.m. 1 Comment

  Program helps students think like engineers

• Teacher’s death leaves void in Iva community Published 08/30/2010 at 3:44 p.m. 4 Comments

  Counselors were at Starr Iva Middle School all day Monday to help students and teachers deal with the death of one of their beloved teachers.

• Teachers of the year named for Anderson, Pickens school districts Published 08/28/2010 at 10:25 p.m.

  Every year, to kick off the start of the school year, the Anderson County and Pickens County school districts announce their teachers of the year

• District 5 awards contract for work at new elementary school in Anderson Updated 08/27/2010 at 7:02 p.m.

  North Pointe scheduled to open in 2012

• Volunteers to visit dropouts, invite them back to school Published 08/27/2010 at 3:55 p.m.

  Anderson city residents whose teenagers haven’t gone to school yet this year can expect a knock on their doors Saturday.

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