WHS named a finalist for the annual Dick and Tunky Riley Award

Five South Carolina School Improvement Councils (SICs) have been named statewide 2018 award finalists for their accomplishments in parent and civic engagement within their school communities. The SC School Improvement Council’s annual Dick and Tunky Riley Award for School Improvement Council Excellence was created in 2002 to recognize the significant contributions made to public education by the nearly 14,000 local SIC members who volunteer in the state’s 1,100-plus K-12 public schools. In alphabetical order, this year’s Riley Award finalists are Chapin Intermediate SIC in School District 5 of Lexington and Richland counties, Hilton Head Island High SIC in the Beaufort County School District, Saluda High SIC in the Saluda County Schools System, South Florence High SIC in Florence County School District 1, and Walhalla High (WHS) SIC in the School District of Oconee County. The winner of this year’s Riley Award will be selected from this year’s finalists by an independent panel of reviewers and announced during the 2018 SC-SIC Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. The SC-SIC Riley Award for SIC Excellence is named in honor of former SC Governor and US Education Secretary Richard Riley and his late wife, Tunky, and recognizes the couple’s longstanding commitment to quality public education.