State Superintendent of Education at State of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina Area
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Jim Rex’s Summary
Jim Rex took the oath of office as South Carolina's 16th State Superintendent of Education on January 10, 2007, and immediately went to work fulfilling the promises he made to the people of South Carolina during his successful 2006 campaign. Those include:
• accelerating innovation;
• reforming accountability to ensure its success;
• expanding public school choices for parents and students;
• promoting fair and equitable school funding; and
• elevating and reinvigorating the teaching profession.
His accomplishments include:
• Establishment of a new, statewide Teacher Renewal Center to help give our teachers the opportunity to learn and grow outside the school setting;
• A statewide television ad campaign designed to recruit new people into the teaching profession;
• Creation of an unprecedented collaborative, the Palmetto Priority Schools Project, to address the vast challenges of South Carolina’s lowest performing schools;
• Creation of two statewide task forces to address fair and equitable funding for schools;
• Created a new Office of Innovation and Grants inside the State Department of Education to research and implement exciting new reforms that have never been tried; and
• Establishment of a public-private partnership that will deliver as many as 50,000 free laptop computers to schools across the State.
Jim Rex’s Specialties:
• accelerating innovation;
• reforming accountability to ensure its success;
• expanding public school choices for parents and students;
• promoting fair and equitable school funding; and
• elevating and reinvigorating the teaching profession.
Jim Rex’s Experience
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State Superintendent of Education
State of South Carolina
(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Jim Rex took the oath of office as South Carolina's 16th State Superintendent of Education on January 10, 2007, and immediately went to work fulfilling the promises he made to the people of South Carolina during his successful 2006 campaign. Those include:
• accelerating innovation;
• reforming accountability to ensure its success;
• expanding public school choices for parents and students;
• promoting fair and equitable school funding; and
• elevating and reinvigorating the teaching profession.
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