State Approves Financial Takeover of Marlboro County School District

SC Board of Education OKs financial takeover of Pee Dee school district

The state Department of Education building in West Columbia on Friday, July 18, 2025. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)WEST COLUMBIA — The state education department will take over the finances of a rural Pee Dee school district, pausing a plan to consolidate schools to make up a hole in the budget, the state Board of Education decided Friday. The decision comes a week after the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division launched an investig…

School consolidation plan stopped as SC takes financial control of Pee Dee district

The State Board of Education on Friday gave the go-ahead for the S.C. Department of Education to take control of the Marlboro County School District’s finances.

SC Department of Education approves financial takeover of Pee Dee school district

State education leaders are taking over a Pee Dee school district’s finances.

State approves financial takeover of Marlboro County School District

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) -- State education leaders unanimously approved a financial takeover of the Marlboro County School District at a meeting Friday morning in West Columbia. The decision by the State Board of Education is effective immediately. It comes amid a financial crisis that has been years in the making, and after South Carolina Department of Education officials conducted a "thorough review of the district's financial practices and…