Upstate educator named State Teacher of the Year

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Anderson School District Three teacher Jeffrey Maxey was named the 2019 South Carolina Teacher of the Year on Wednesday night.

Sumter School District’s Zachariah Lowe was a top-five finalist for the award and attended Wednesday’s gala ceremony at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

The announcement was made by State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman.

Maxey is a special education resource teacher at Starr Elementary School in Anderson School Three.

The other three Teacher of the Year finalists included:

• Nicholas Snyder, Berkeley County School District;

• Robert Harris, Richland County School District One; and

• Susan Snyder, York School District Three.