Dec 20, 2018 | News
Spartanburg City Manager Chris Story said Wednesday night there’s no other child development center that’s quite like the Franklin School.Story said the partnerships that led to its creation, and the blend of students it will serve, make the northside community’s new...
Oct 24, 2018 | News
After years of planning, a spate of community-development projects is coming to life this fall in Spartanburg’s Northside neighborhood.Positioned along a half-mile stretch of Howard Street, the projects carry a combined price tag of $56 million and aim to ensure that...
Aug 16, 2018 | News
Laura Reynolds scrawled a simple message for students on the floor of the brand new Franklin School this week: “Don’t try to blend in, you were born to stand out.”“I think that’s an important message for anybody to hear,” said Reynolds, the dean of the University of...
Jun 23, 2018 | News
The new director of the Franklin School has a number of challenges facing her ahead of the early learning school’s opening in January.There’s staffing to consider, training to complete and kinks to work out after Shawna Bynum officially begins her post as the school’s...
Mar 7, 2018 | News
It’s been almost five months since the first scoops of dirt were moved marking the official start of construction on the Franklin School, a $10 million early childhood learning center in the city of Spartanburg’s Northside neighborhood.Since the Northside Development...