RICHBURG -- Jerry Thomas built his home in Edgemoor because he wanted his kids to go to the small Lewisville schools.

Two Fort Mill elementary schools are looking to launch single-gender programs in which students would attend separate classes for boys and girls.

This month, Gold Hill Elementary started a trial run with 46 fifth-graders and plans to expand it next school year. Springfield Elementary is considering adding a program; teachers are studying research about how boys and girls learn differently.

CHESTER — Fearful of losing their middle and high schools, Great Falls residents blasted Chester County school officials Tuesday night about the potential merging of their schools with rival Lewisville.

After nearly two years without an official leader, Westminster Catawba Christian School in Rock Hill has hired a headmaster.

Saba Hanbali is a visiting instructor from Amman, Jordan. She has been in Rock Hill since August on a yearlong Fulbright scholarship teaching Arabic at Winthrop University.

CHESTER -- Students at two rival schools could become classmates in the fall, and many residents are livid at the prospect.

Chester County school officials are considering closing Great Falls middle and high schools and moving those students to Lewisville schools.

Economic stimulus, education funding, schools, school, funding, Obama, taxes, school budget York County educators are rooting for a federal economic stimulus plan that could over two years inject millions of dollars into local schools for construction and services for low-income and disabled students.

But school officials say details are sketchy and it's unclear whether the draft, circulating among congressional committees, will be approved intact.

More Clover and York Comprehensive high school students in 2007-2008 received college credit for Advanced Placement test scores than in the previous year, according to a report released Thursday.

YORK -- The thuds heard in York on Thursday started with footfalls in the cold dark. Runners, neighbors, two guys thumping and huffing for more than 6 miles. One black and one white, and it sure made no difference to either one of them.

LANCASTER -- Maybe here's what Gov. Mark Sanford really wants to do: Stop the poor from dreaming.