COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina students got mostly good news as the Education Department released several measures of student performance Thursday.

Education officials said 84 percent of the state’s 1,082 schools got at least a C, passing its new letter-grade assessments. The assessments replace the old system under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which failed a school if it didn’t meet any of 27 different standards.

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