Youth

If you are between 14 and 21 years old and you are…

  • at-risk youth in low-income home
  • under-prepared youth
  • school dropout
  • homeless, runaway, or foster child
  • pregnant or parenting youth
  • offender
  • disabled and/or learning-disabled youth

let our Santee-Lynches Youth Providers help. We’re part of the Santee-Lynches Workforce Investment Board (WIB), and we provide special Youth Programs to low-income participants under Title 1 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).

That means we have people who care and the resources and you need to get your future headed in a better direction. All you have to do to make it happen is to take that first step.

With WIA Youth Programs, you can:

have free access and usage of WIN, WorkKeys Computer Training Program; earn a high school diploma; get your GED; prepare for college, military, or advanced training; gain work experience; find a good job; develop leadership capabilities; and learn social behaviors and skills that last a lifetime.

Services

Tutoring, study skills training, and instruction to help you complete secondary school Alternative secondary school Participants get work experience Paid/unpaid work experiences (internships and job shadowing) Occupational skills training Leadership development Support services Adult mentoring Follow-up services Comprehensive guidance and counseling

Youth Service Providers

Clarendon and Lee: Wateree Community Actions, Inc. • 803-773-6512 • OS* and IS*
Kershaw: Applied Technology Education Campus • 803-424-2873 • IS and OS*
Lee: Lee county High School (Project Act) • 803-428-4010 • IS*
Sumter: Sumter County Career Center • 803-481-8578 • IS and OS*

* IS = In-School Youth • OS = Out-of-School Youth

Santee-Lynches WIB Youth Council Members

Stacey McInnis, Chair
Bank of Clarendon		 Ms. Beverly Moberg
Arvin Meritor
Troy Santoscoy
Coca Cola Bottling Co, Consolidate		 Bobby Anderson
Green Savannah Nursey
Rick Levy
Becton Dickinson & Co.		 Virginia Dority
Caterpillar Pins Plant
Charlie Gavin
Freeman Millwork		 John Tindal
Clarendon School District #2
Sharon Teigue
Sumter County Adult Ed		 Willie Bethune
Wateree Community Actions, Inc.
Gerald Vaughn
Intl. Brotherhood of Teamsters		 Ed Garrison
Kershaw County School District
Dr. Tim Hardee
Central Carolina Technical College		 Dan Cox
Southeastern Elec. Assemby Svcs
Linda Mixon
SC Department of Juvenile Justice 		Jessie Wilson
Sumter County Hope Centers
Sonia Spivey
Sumter Housing Authority		 Barbara Brown
Clemson Extension
Rita Beard
Sumter School District #2		 John Huggins
Crestwood High School
Sherril Ray
Lakewood High school		 Daphne Sanders
Sumter High School
Ramona Lies
Together We Can		  

School Report Cards

Area School District Report Card Ratings

The following is a short overview of the state Department of Education’s Report Card rating system established with the South Carolina Education Accountability Act of 1998. For more information and individual school Report Card ratings, go to www.myscschools.com.

South Carolina’s performance goal is for student achievement to rank in the top half of states in the U.S. by 2010. To achieve this goal our state must become one of the five fastest-improving systems in the country.

Every public school and school district receives an annual Report Card rating of performance. The report cards provide educators, parents, students and the general public with an assortment of information, including student performance on state standardized tests, student programs and services, attendance and funding.

Each school district and school receives two performance ratings: An Absolute Rating of student performance that school year, and an Improvement Rating measuring student improvement over a two-year period. The Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) for grades 3 through 8 and the High School Assessment Program (HSAP) exit exam for second-year high school students determine Report Card ratings.

A district or school’s performance is measured on a five-point scale from Unsatisfactory to Excellent.