Sources at the S.C. Department of Education tell FITS that some friction has developed between Lexington-Richland School District Five and Dutch Fork high school teacher Kelly Payne - the founder of one of South Carolina's most popular political forums. In fact, an Upstate Tea Party website has reported
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Here's your "post" for Friday as we head into the first full weekend of 2011. Next week will obviously be an eventful one in South Carolina politics as S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley takes the oath of office amid all sorts of fanfare ... and perhaps even a bounce house. Also on Tuesday - a day before
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So ... we promised that we would try to make this daily "post" thing a regular feature on our website, and after dutifully (and painfully) shaking off the holiday hangover that's exactly what we're doing. As always, if you’ve got a link you would like us to include in the "post," feel free to email
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For reasons surpassing understanding, the Charleston Post and Courier devoted a healthy number of column inches on Monday to outgoing S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex - who in addition to offering budget advice to his successor, Mick Zais, is apparently trying to frame his disastrous tenure around
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It's been awhile since we've done one of these random link recaps but we figured that today was as good a day as any to start bringing back the tradition. Why? Why not ... As we head into 2011 here at FITS (our fifth year of operation), we hope to add this recap as a daily feature - along with
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Outgoing S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex claims that his department is strapped for cash ... although the reality is that the Palmetto state is spending more money on public education than ever before (as part of its largest budget ever). No wonder Rex can afford to continue growing an
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All is not well in "Palmetto Donkeyland ..." With the S.C. Democratic Party officially on the verge of extinction (with the exception of Democrats who run as Republicans, obviously), the post-election recrimination is reaching a fever pitch. For example, here's top S.C. Democratic operative Laurin
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Outgoing S.C. Superintendent of Education (and failed gubernatorial candidate) Jim Rex attended a screening of the documentary Waiting for Superman at the Nickelodeon Theater in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Tuesday night. A painful glimpse at the ongoing generational failure of our country's government-run
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We've probably been less vocal than we should be in our support for Mick Zais, the Republican nominee for S.C. Superintendent of Education. Sure, we endorsed him in the Republican runoff back in June, but we remain thoroughly unconvinced that he is the real reformer our worst-in-the-nation public education
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S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex and his army of educrats have been bemoaning so-called "budget cuts" for years, but raw fiscal data released this week by the S.C. Budget and Control Board shows that South Carolina's public schools are (once again) getting more money than ever before. In fact,
Read story »In a state already defined by epic failure, S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex has spent the last four years lowering the bar even further - something we weren't even sure was possible. Elected as a "reformer" four years ago, Rex has instead further "deformed" public education in South Carolina
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Talk about bad timing ... On the same day the College Board announced that SAT scores in South Carolina had dropped for the fourth consecutive year, the architect of that epic failure endorsed Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen. "I am pleased to give my full and unqualified support
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