The Beaufort-Jasper Academy for Career Excellence could get a $7.4 million facelift after both counties' boards agreed Thursday to have a construction firm draft a three-year plan for renovation projects. (More)

Elementary- and middle-schoolers: start buying your uniforms now. (More)

Maybe things are slowing down in the Beaufort County School District. (More)

To streamline its bidding process, the Beaufort County School District began bundling small renovation projects this summer into one large project, officials said lastweek. (More)

BLUFFTON -- For the first time since the University of South Carolina Beaufort opened student housing at the Bluffton campus in 2005, some students are on a waiting list to get a dormitory room. (More)

Amid a public discussion Tuesday night on school calendars, Linda Pierce put it bluntly. (More)

The Beaufort County School District's decision to add 20 school days to the calendar for poor-performing students doesn't come without a price. (More)

Archaeologists have found artifacts dating back as far as 4,500 years at the site of what will become a new Bluffton elementary school. (More)

Beaufort County School District officials said they're still planning to purchase land for a new elementary school on Lady's Island but are waiting to see what enrollment trends and new district programs might do to shift enrollment. (More)

The Beaufort County School District was able to buy more than 200 acres in Bluffton for about $15 million this week -- far less that it had planned -- because the landowners believe the presence of a school increases the value of their development, district officials and developers said. (More)

An abrupt and violent thunderstorm rumbled through Beaufort on Thursday afternoon, knocking out power to about 23,000 customers while downing trees and disrupting traffic, officials said. (More)

The Beaufort County Board of Education announced Tuesday the $15 million purchase of about 255 acres for three schools in the Bluffton area -- about $26 million less than the school district budgeted for the land in its April bond referendum. (More)

The Beaufort County School District's uniforms issue is one that's been fueledmostly with anecdotes. There is the angry mother at the school board meeting, tired of seeing scantily clad girls in school, the similarly fed-up father or teachers and school leaders who believe uniforms will curb teasing, eliminate distractions and end questions about dress codes. (More)

You could not see Best Buy's computers unless you saw Chris Dunston first. (More)

The Beaufort County School District has scheduled the first meeting of a committee charged with recommending one calendar for all schools, even as the district continues to search for members, a district official said. (More)

A noisy air conditioner whirred in the corner of Michael Floyd's science room Wednesday as a small group of fifth-graders took their seats in Whale Branch Middle School on the first day of school. (More)

A retired postal worker from Burton is the second and final candidate registered to run for the Beaufort County Board of Education's District 8 seat in September. (More)

The mother of a former Robert Smalls Middle School student who was critically injured and suffered brain damage after a student punched him and knocked him down in 2006 has filed a lawsuit against the Beaufort County School District. (More)

A teaching assistant and two-time challenger to former Beaufort County Board of Education member Margie Jenkins is taking her third stab at winning the board's District 8 seat in September. (More)

Middle-schoolers in Laurel Bay can choose between an expanded Bolden Elementary School with seventh and eighth grades this year and Robert Smalls Middle School, Beaufort County School District officials said Tuesday. (More)

The Beaufort County Board of Education has asked the school district to figure out how to provide pre-K programming for all at-risk 4-year-olds. (More)

Bolden Elementary School in Laurel Bay will offer seventh and eighth grade in the upcoming school year to minimize the number of school changes children of military personnel have to make, officials said Friday. (More)

It was 3:30 a.m. July 10 when Amanda O'Nan, principal of Hilton Head Island High School, got the call from Sonitrol, the company that runs that school's security system. The school's fire alarm was ringing. (More)

The Technical College of the Lowcountry named three finalists Monday to replace outgoing president Anne McNutt. (More)

Motown Monday was nothing if not ironic. (More)