By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Educational efforts in the area include preparing young readers to “read to learn” and serving first-generation college students in a “first of its kind” way, beginning while they are still in high school.

Pickens United members heard updates from area education officials at the group’s June 30 meeting.

Pickens County School Board Trustee Betty Garrison said the school district’s prohibition on students having cellphones in the classroom

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