Next CCRP meeting scheduled for November 11

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The next monthly CCRP meeting will be on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at Cornerstone FWB Church, 2116 

Greeleyville Hwy, Manning. Doors open at 6PM. Supper will be served at 6:30PM (donations appreciated). Meeting will begin at 7PM.  

Please bring a non-perishable food item to the meeting. All items will be donated to the Turbeville Childrens Home to support children aged 11-20.

Guest speaker will be Ms. Ellen Weaver, President/CEO of Palmetto Promise. If you are concerned about education in our county & state; you do not want to miss this meeting!

Prior to serving as Palmetto Promise Institute’s Founding President & CEO, Greenville-native Ellen Weaver worked in a wide variety of roles in U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s Washington and South Carolina offices. Her final assignment as State Director included management of staff, communications, and outreach strategy. Her work portfolio also includes development, speech-writing, coalition-building, and authorship of editorials published nationally and across the opinion pages of South Carolina. Ellen learned the value of initiative and hard work early in life, helping her dad on the job sites of his small residential construction business.  She currently serves as Chairman of the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, and on the board of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She is also a deacon and chorister at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia.

According to our Chairman, Moye Graham , Ms. Weaver is the leading potential candidate for State Superintendent of Education. Our current Superintendent of Education is Molly Spearman, who will not be running for re-election.

For more info on Palmetto Promise:

https://palmettopromise.org/