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A2 The Horry Independent Newspaper, Conway, SC 29526 November 6, 2003
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received an improvement
rating of average, indicating
the district is making ade-
quate progress toward state
goals when comparing per-
formance between 2002 and
2003, All 23 of the district's
elementary and primary
schools received an absolute
rating of either good or excel-
lent.
"One hundred percent of
our schools are rated aver-
age, good or excellent,"
Postlewait said. "We're as
pleased as we can be with
the progress that is being
made."
Conway High School was
one of the schools making
tremendous strides over this
past year's scores. CHS
received an absolute rating
of good and an improvement
rating of excellent.
Homewood and Loris ele-
mentary schools also made
drastic Improvements over
their 2002 scores. HES
received excellent scores on
both ratings and LES
received an absolute rating
of good and an improvement
rating of excellent.
Twenty of the district's 44
schools received an absolute
rating of excellent, 18 are
good and six are average.
Overall, the district moved
more than 10 percent of stu-
dents to a higher level than
they attained last year and
50 percent of the schools
scored average or better on
improvement ratings. In
order for schools to receive
an average improvement rat-
ing, at least 10 percent of
students must perform bet-
ter than the previous year. A
good improvement rating
requires a 30 percent
increase in performance
while excellent requires a 40
percent increase.
Schools receiving an
unsatisfactory Improvement
rating included Daisy
Elementary, Kingston
Elementary, North Myrtle
Beach Elementary, Palmetto
Bays Elementary, Pee Dee
Elementary, South Conway
Elementary. Aynor High (7-
8), Carolina Forest Middle,
Foresbrook Middle, Green
Sea Floyds High (7-8), Lorls
Middle, Myrtle Beach Middle,
St. James Middle and Green
Sea Floyds High (9-I ~
"The absolute
critical rating,"
said. "It's how our
are performing.
District officials
one of the keys to
analyzing data
the necessary
finding out where weJ
focus and focusing
areas," said Zeb
district's executive
middle school
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the faltering economy. The
other two are energizing the
S.C. Department of Commerce
and a seven-item reform pack-
age for business, which
includes worker's compensa-
tion reform, health insurance
cost containment initiatives,
small business regulatory
reform, workforce education
and training initiatives as well
as support for the Life Sciences
Act and a new Capital Access
Program.
A Conway woman was
found guilty and sentenced to
a minimum of 30 years in
prison late yesterday for the
murder of her former
boyfriendKenneth Wayne
Coates Sr.
Wanda Ward Haithcock, 50,
of Summer Drive, Conway,
was convicted following her
second trial in two weeks. In
her first trial, Haithcock was
found innocent of armed rob-
bery, but the Jury was hung on
the question of murder so
Circuit Judge John Breeden
was forced to declare a mlstri-
al,
Coates' body was found Jan.
24, 2001, in an abandoned
house on the 6200 block of
Dongola Highway. He was shot
twice in the head.
Defense attorney Lucia
Bacot was disappointed in the
verdict. She said the 30-year
These items include loans to
small businesses whose pay-
back will create more capital
for lending, Plan supporters
say 82,5 million would result
in loans of 824 million to 856
million.
The plan recommends allow-
ing small businesses to band
together to buy health insur-
ance so they can get better
deals, encouraging state agen-
cies to buy from South
Carolina businesses when
possible, reducing liabfllty for
sentence is almost the same as
a life sentence for the 50-year-
old Haithcock because she will
be required to serve every day
of the sentence.
The Jury reached its verdict
after requesting the testimony
of four key witnesses be
replayed for them. The four
witnesses included three peo-
ple who placed Haithcock at
the abandoned house, as well
her sister, Cynthia Ward
Bowling who testified
Halthcock drove Coates' white
Explorer to Charleston.
Wade Lawrtmore said the
house where Coates was found
belongs to his mother. Several
years ago, when the house
began to deteriorate, he built a
room onto his house and
moved his mother in with him.
Deputy Sol. Bert Von
Herrman said Haithcock
bought a .25-caliber gun and
businesses that sell to the
State, unbundling multiple
contracts so more people can
compete and easing regula-
tions on business,
A state committee is already
looking at ways to help busi-
ness keep insurance rates
from continuing to mushroom.
Sanford explained his plan
Tuesday at Ned's in Aynor
where he quickly ran into con-
cerns for and by tobacco farm-
ers.
Unfortunately, Sanford said,
magazine consistent with the
one that was used to kill
Coates and police found a bul-
let in her home that had been
chambered through the same
gun.
According to a forensic
pathologist, indications are
Coates had been dead from
four to 19 days.
Ms. Haithcock has been
scheduled for trial at least four
times before this week.
In June, her trial was post-
poned because Breeden deter-
mined that she was not com-
petent to stand trial because
she had been without her
medicine for several days
before she appeared for court.
Her drugs then included
anti-depressant, anti-anxiety
and anti-psychotic pills, plus
one to keep her from hearing
voices and another to stabilize
her moods.
no tax plans ever have I00
percent winners and he
acknowledged that tobacco
growers may be hurt by the
plan. However, he said, tobac-
co farmers are being hurt more
by the shift to foreign tobacco
than they are by taxes,
Even if American tobacco
growers produce the best
tobacco in the world, produc-
tion will continue to move
overseas as long as the other
countries undercut Americans
on the price, he said.
Sanford didn't express
much sympathy for the lot-
tery, saying administrators
can easily take any lost
money from promotions.
Sanford said the group spent
830,000 on beach towels pro-
moting the lottery and many
more thousands on branding,
which he sees as unnecessary
because the games have no
competition.
Also he asked, why should
South Carolinians pay tax on
milk, which they have to buy,
and not on lottery tickets,
which they don't have to buy.
He said his new plan will
take away part of a mandato-
ry tax and replace that money
with voluntary taxes because
people choose to smoke and
buy lottery tickets and they
can' choose not to.
Sanford's $244 million
stimulus package will be
debated by the S.C.
Legislature in the legislative
session beginning early in
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