We hear excuses every day from status quo backers in Columbia as to why South Carolina's public education system is so atrocious. It's poverty, they say. Or racism. Or insufficient funding. Or it's the fault of parents. Then there's our favorite excuse - that the ongoing debate over parental choice
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By one vote, South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" House of Representatives killed a universal school choice bill that would have provided expanded academic options for all parents and a lifeline for more than 100,000 children trapped in failing public schools. The debate took less than half an
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S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen may have lost the Palmetto state's governor's race last month - but he's still pushing ideas that he believes will make South Carolina's state government more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers it's supposed to serve. Some of them actually will ... On Thursday,
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We take anything published on SC Hotline with the proverbial ocean of salt, but given the heat that's on S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell following his recent botched robo-call (the latest skirmish in the South Carolina GOP's ongoing civil war) ... it's possible that he could really be facing a new threat
Read story »SPEAKER SEEKS TO DICTATE SELECTION OF NEW EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FITSNews - August 4, 2008 - Rumors of S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell's "skull-cracking" approach to the forthcoming legislative session appear to be taking definitive form this week, as several State Representatives have confirmed
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