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July 11, 2016Meeting Street Schools leaders share keys to success in high-poverty schools

When interviewing prospective teachers to work at Meeting Street Elementary at Brentwood, a high-poverty North Charleston school run by a public-private partnership, Principal Sarah Campbell...

February 10, 2016Letter: Making schools work for ‘the kids’

As you may have read recently in this paper, we at Meeting Street Schools are in discussions with Charleston County School District to expand our...

February 7, 2016How to close the achievement gap

For years, educators have been trying different ways to close the achievement gap between white and black students in Charleston County. Finally, one of those...

August 24, 2015Fix schools from the start

High schools in Charleston County that are struggling because students have fled to other schools need the full attention of the community — educators, businesses...

June 2, 2015Meeting Street Academy celebrates major milestone

As Kimberly Manigault-Claiborne began thinking last year about what she wanted her son Peter’s final year of elementary school to be like, she decided she...

May 15, 2014Schoolhouse rock – changing status quo: Ben Navarro at TEDxCharleston