THE ISSUE: PACT tests; OUR OPINION: Standardized test should not be end-all in S.C. schools S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex has focused on bipartisanship in making recommendations on reforms ...

In mid-March, members of the South Carolina Senate announced the “death” of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test. More accurately, a handful of Republican senators reworked language into a broader ...

The PACT test is one of two major exams that Charleston County elementary and middle school students take, and those scores are used to gauge schools' progress or failure. Schools with strong PACT ...

The department has created a Web site where people can vote. The new test will replace the PACT, or Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test, which S.C. students in third through eighth grades have taken ...

The Pentagon is gearing up to test missiles banned by a Cold War-era arms control pact with Russia that is set to end formally this summer after President Trump’s withdrawal over Russian violations.