Tina Terry
Tina Terry reports on how decisions about schools ripple through the lives of students, families, and the wider community. She focuses on education stories that sit at the intersection of funding, safety, access, and local history, following policies from the meeting room to the classroom and into the neighborhood. Her coverage is grounded in daily reporting for WSOC-TV’s Eyewitness News, where she has built a long-running beat around public schools, colleges, and youth-focused institutions.
Education funding, safety and accountability
A consistent thread in Terry’s work is close tracking of how education funding and safety policy translate into conditions on the ground. In coverage of South Carolina’s effort to place school resource officers in every elementary school, she traces the gap between what the governor requested for the program and what lawmakers actually approved, highlighting the hundreds of schools left without dedicated officers and the districts that remain exposed. She brings in voices from law enforcement and school leaders to show how budget decisions shape daily security in elementary schools, not just headlines.
Her reporting on a school board’s rejection of millions of dollars for mobile classrooms takes the same approach. She connects the refusal of funding to redistricting plans that would move thousands of students into different schools to manage overcrowding and notes the knock-on effects for local home sales and neighborhood stability. The story shows her interest in the way capacity, capital projects, and growth management collide, and in the tensions that arise when families weigh school quality against housing decisions.
Terry also covers accountability inside higher education institutions. In her piece on Clinton College employees who say they have not been paid by the school, she focuses on staff members caught between their professional commitments and a lack of wages, examining how financial strain within a college affects the people who keep it running. The coverage keeps attention on worker experiences and the college’s obligations, reinforcing her focus on the human consequences of institutional decisions.
Access, college readiness and lifelong learning
Beyond day-to-day school operations, Terry frequently reports on efforts to expand access to education and create new pathways from high school to college and careers. In her story on the Fort Mill Academic Hub receiving a $1 million boost, she lays out how the project is designed as a multi-age learning center where high school students, university partners, and adult learners share space. She details plans for dual enrollment programs that let high school students earn college credits early, along with initiatives to expose students to artificial intelligence and engineering projects.
Her reporting tracks how legislation and surplus funding are leveraged to build new campuses and programs, and she connects those investments to concrete benefits such as early college credit, childhood development services, and adult learning opportunities. By following the academic hub from initial proposal to funded reality, Terry shows how collaboration between schools, cities, and state leaders can broaden educational opportunity and reshape community infrastructure.
School governance, growth and community impact
Terry’s education beat often overlaps with broader stories about governance and community change. In her coverage of school redistricting debates and overcrowded classrooms, she examines how board decisions force families to adjust to new attendance zones and how those shifts alter patterns of growth and demand in surrounding neighborhoods.
She is attentive to the voices of parents and residents concerned about both quality of education and property values, illustrating how school policy is inseparable from wider community planning.
Her work also returns to long-running cases and issues connected to children’s welfare. In a piece marking a decade since the remains of Erica Parsons were found, she notes both her earlier extensive coverage of the case and the continuing efforts by advocates to educate children and adults about child abuse and prevention.
By revisiting the story with an emphasis on ongoing education and awareness, she frames child protection as a continuing responsibility for institutions and communities, not a closed chapter.
Other reporting on lawsuits involving school-affiliated crossing guards and rescues undertaken by youth organizations reinforces her interest in how young people experience risk, responsibility, and service. Whether she is speaking with attorneys about accountability after an accident or with scouts who helped save a man in distress, she connects these events back to the environments in which children learn and grow.
Experience and approach
Terry has been part of WSOC-TV’s Eyewitness News team since 2011, bringing years of experience in daily reporting to her education and community coverage. She has previously reported in other markets and earned recognition from broadcast associations for specialized and feature reporting, reflecting a long-standing focus on in-depth storytelling.
Her professional background includes both newsroom work and communications leadership, and she uses that mix to frame complex policy stories in clear, straightforward language.
Across her education beat, she emphasizes on-the-ground reporting, interviews with affected families, educators, law enforcement, and advocates, and a steady attention to how decisions about schools shape safety, opportunity, and community identity. Her stories tend to be concise and concrete, built around specific projects, lawsuits, funding decisions, and commemorations, with little abstraction. Communications teams can expect her to examine both the policy framework and the lived experience of those it touches when she takes on an education story.
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Abril Preciado
Abril Preciado is an Emmy award-winning bilingual television journalist at FOX6 News Milwaukee who focuses on education, school crises and policy decisions affecting students, families and staff. She follows school communities over months, from emergency response through investigations, relocation plans and the first day back in class. Her reporting on the Lincoln Avenue School fire covers displacement, safety changes, rebuilding and the move to temporary space. She also uses public records to examine local officials, test official claims and connect government conduct to public trust. Before joining FOX6, she reported for Univision in Sacramento, covering the Farm Workers March, wildfires, politics and the Latino community, and contributed border reporting for a national radio network. She centers families, explains complex decisions clearly and focuses on the human effects of policy.
Adria Iraheta
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Alan J. Borsuk
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