The South Carolina Department of Education is the state education agency of

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. It is headquartered in Columbia at the Rutledge Building. The agency is overseen by an elected Superintendent of Education, currently

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. Previous Superintendents have included

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, Hugh S. Thompson, Mick Zais,

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, and

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Instructional Television

The Department of Education's Instructional Television (SCDE ITV) team, part of the South Carolina Office of eLearning, works with

South Carolina Educational Television South Carolina Educational Television (branded as South Carolina ETV, SCETV or simply ETV) is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) member television stations serving the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is owned and operated b ...

(ETV) to provide resources and services to South Carolina public schools, including

instructional television Instructional television (ITV) is the use of television programs in the field of distance education. Educational television programs on instructional television may be less than one half hour long (generally 15 minutes in length) to help their i ...

(ITV) for

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. ITV is responsible for the selection of video-based resources, the development of local programming to support the state's K–12 curriculum, and the scheduling of approved resources. ETV provides production and technical delivery services to support instructional programming. K-12 and

professional development Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning Informal learning is characterized "by a low degree of planning and ...

programming are now delivered both by broadcast through the ETV satellite system and online via StreamlineSC. ITV has produced with ETV award-winning series including ''Project Discovery'' and ''Eye Wonder''. South Carolina focused resources including ''Detective Bonz'', ''the SC History Mystery'' and ''Idella Bodie's SC Women Series'' are utilized to support the curriculum.

Executive Department

The state superintendent of education is elected at-large and serves a term of four years.

Executive Department positions

*Ellen Weaver, State Superintendent *Betsy Carpentier, Deputy, Division of Data, Technology & Agency Operations *Cathy Hazelwood, Deputy and General Counsel, Division of Legal Affairs *John Payne, Deputy, Division of Federal Programs, Accountability & School Improvement *Virgie Chambers, Deputy, Division of District Operations & Support

Board of education

The South Carolina State Board of Education is composed of one representative from each of the sixteen South Carolina Judicial Circuit Courts. County representatives for each circuit are responsible for electing their circuit's board representative whose term ends after four consecutive years. Any person who is a registered elector in the State and who has taken the oath of office as defined by the

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is eligible for board membership.

Superintendents

References

External links

South Carolina Department of Education
{{Authority control State departments of education of the United States

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South Carolina Educational Television