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School board adopts new math textbooks, approves meeting-date change and personnel recommendations
Summary
The board approved a math-textbook adoption for 2024–25, directed curriculum rollout and teacher training, and voted on several procedural and personnel items including moving the April meeting to April 8, 2025.
KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. — The Kershaw County School District Board approved new math instructional materials tonight, authorized follow-up curriculum work and professional development, and completed a bundle of procedural votes including a meeting-date change and acceptance of personnel recommendations after an executive session.
The board voted to adopt the district’s recommended math texts for the 2024–25 adoption cycle. Dan Matthews, the district’s chief academic officer, described the selections and the state-driven timeline: K–5 will use I-Ready; grades 6–8 and 9–12 will use Savvas; the new high-school pathways include Applications and Modeling (B.W. Walsh) and reasoning/statistical-modeling texts (Savvas) for certain courses. “We—re asking for your approval tonight,” Matthews said.
Matthews walked the board through the curriculum consequences of South…
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