Florence Adult Education

🗣Are you looking for information about registering for Adult Education classes?👀

📆Do you need an appointment with Dr. Justice regarding admission for a student under 18?🏫

Use the links below, and you can get started with the process:

Website: https://f1adulted.f1s.org/registration

Meeting Link: https://calendly.com/ljustice-fsd1/30min

🗣️Special
announcement!!📣

✨Florence One Adult Education 2026-2027 registration opens Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM!!✨

✅Registration Assistance Available
July 29-August 11
-Monday to Thursday
9:00am-3:00pm
-Friday
9:00am-12:00pm

✅$45 Enrollment Fee
*Payment due prior to starting classes. $5 service fee for any payment plans applied. Waiver honored for partner referrals and SNAP recipients.

✅Classes begin Wednesday, August 12
-Open Enrollment through August 31
-Managed Enrollment begins September 7

💻For more information, please visit our website:
https://f1adulted.f1s.org/

📒Florence One Adult Education
500 South Dargan Street
Florence, SC 29506
843.664.8152

Attention future Stingers! Have you applied to FDTC and need a little help finishing up and getting registered? Please sign up for a Momentum Monday session with one of our admissions counselors.

Momentum Mondays are designed to help students complete their enrollment process in one visit by bringing any missing documents, receiving admissions assistance, participating in a specialized campus tour, meeting with Financial Aid, and registering for classes with an advisor.

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New week. New goals. New opportunities. Every step you take this week brings you closer to earning your GED. You've got this! 💙📚

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July, working or playing!!🇺🇸🎇🇺🇸🎇

Please enjoy the Summer 2026 Edition of College and Career News:

Summer 2026*Florence, SC Summer 2026*Florence, SC

✨🇺🇸HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND! ✨🇺🇸

The holiday weekend is here! 🎆

It's time to celebrate freedom, enjoy family gatherings, fire up the BBQ, watch spectacular fireworks, and create unforgettable summer memories with the people you love.

May your weekend be filled with happiness, laughter, peace, and countless blessings. Stay safe, have fun, and enjoy every moment of this special Independence Day weekend.

❤️🤍💙 Wishing everyone a safe, joyful, and blessed 4th of July Weekend! 💙🤍❤️

Check out the next round of programs coming up in our Adult Summer Reading Series! Click on the links below to register for an event (if required) or to learn more.

🇺🇸Cookbook Club: Colonial Potluck: https://www.florencelibrary.org/event/cookbook-club-9390

📜Cuneiform Tablet Messages: https://www.florencelibrary.org/event/cuneiform-tablets-6922

🦖Make Your Own Fossils: https://www.florencelibrary.org/event/make-your-own-fossils-6923

🀄Ancient Games Cafe: https://www.florencelibrary.org/event/ancient-games-cafe-9713

Thank you Eric Cooper and WBTW!

‘It’s just amazing’: Florence County Detention Center graduates its first GED class FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) — Five people recently graduated from the first GED program at the Florence County Detention Center, marking a new educational opportunity for inmates. The initiative is…

EFFINGHAM, S.C. — The Florence County Detention Center hosted its first-ever graduation ceremony last week, marking a historic milestone for local corrections. Through a partnership between the Florence County Sheriff’s Office and Florence One Schools Adult Education program, a new GED testing center opened at the detention center this past spring. Inmates can now earn their high school equivalency diploma, or GED, and graduate while at the facility.

“Higher wages, reduced recidivism, and improved family literacy rates are all potential positive outcomes for our students at the detention center. It’s a win-win-win for everyone to finally have the testing center fully operational. The graduation ceremony is the cherry on top," said Dr. Lisa Justice, Director of Florence One Adult Education.

According to Dr. Justice, the Florence One Schools program has offered classes in career-readiness at the detention center for years. Inmates could earn a career-readiness certificate, but they would have to wait until release or a transfer to a state facility to take the GED.

Since 2023, Captain Lynnette Patton and the FCDC staff have worked with adult education teachers and Dr. Justice to establish GED-Prep classes for inmates. “The goal was always to present participants with the possibility of earning their GED on-site. We’ve been working on this for so long, and listening to the graduates today makes it all worth it,” said Patton.

Justice explained that like the GED examination itself, the approval process to become a testing center in a restricted location is not an easy task. From technology upgrades to proctor training, the process has multiple steps prior to administering the first actual test. “As the school year progressed, it appeared that we would be delayed again, but once everything fell into place, the program produced two graduates within a matter of weeks. They had been studying for months, and both were more than ready to make history,” shared Dr. Justice.

Candidates are tested in four areas: Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Reasoning through Language Arts. To qualify for testing, a participant must have high-school reading and math levels as determined by prior testing and class performance. Still, passing a subject-area test or earning a full GED is not guaranteed, Dr. Justice further explained.

“For my students, this is a great opportunity to be able to achieve a major academic goal for the first time, making it a critical turning point in their self-perception,” said Adult Education Teacher Vickie Scipio. “Obtaining or studying for a GED gives these men and women hope for the future and a new beginning in spite of their current environment. I am so proud of each one of them.”

“It’s such a blessing to be able to actually do something with myself in a difficult situation,” said (KF), the first inmate to take the tests and pass all four subjects. “My family is super proud of me,” he continued. “It’s the next step to something greater.” Another inmate, (KR), said he is now excited about his future and all of the opportunities coming his way.

The first graduating class includes five inmates. All of them had roles assigned during the graduation ceremony, and they participated wearing caps and gowns provided by Adult Education. One graduate’s address sums up the entire effort for Captain Patton, and she asked that his remarks be made public.

The inmate addressed the group: “Fellow graduates, this ceremony is not the final destination; it is the launchpad. The discipline, accountability, and focus we developed to finish this program are the exact tools we will use to rebuild our lives. Our past is a chapter in our book, but it is not the title of our story. Let’s go out there – whether it is back to the housing units today or home to our communities someday in the future – and prove that our comeback is vastly greater than our setback," said (KF), an adult education graduate.

Dr. Justice announced that Florence One Adult Education plans to expand the program next school year by adding more GED-prep class sections and graduates. “For this year, I am just thrilled for these students, our teachers, and all of the relationships it took to make the testing center and the graduation ceremony reality. Knowing that we have impacted someone’s future and the future of their family – that’s the ultimate payoff for us,” said Dr. Justice.