Despite receiving record amounts of taxpayer funding, South Carolina's public schools saw their student's scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) fall for the fourth consecutive year in 2010. According to the College Board, which administers the SAT, public school students in the Palmetto state
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We opposed the appointment of Arne Duncan as U.S. Secretary of Education ... although he's occasionally been useful to us in making our points about South Carolina's worst-in-the-nation education system. Like last spring, for example, when Duncan said that South Carolina's public school system was
Read story »By FITSNews || S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex is spending nearly twice as much on non-classroom "consultants" this year as he did in 2009 - the latest example of how the global recession isn't hurting South Carolina's massive education bureaucracy. Through the first five months of 2010,
Read story »By FITSNews || No, we're not talking about Alvin Greene. This time we're talking about Democratic voters in some of South Carolina's most lily-white precincts who apparently can't bring themselves to cast their ballots for an African-American candidate. We saw this trend at work in the Columbia,
Read story »By FITSNews || It gives us no great pleasure to endorse Newberry College President Mick Zais over Elizabeth Moffly in next week's Republican runoff election for State Superintendent of Education - as we're sure it probably gives Zais no great pleasure to receive our endorsement. It's not that we dislike
Read story »By FITSNews || South Carolina Democrats are salivating at the prospect of running perhaps their strongest-ever gubernatorial candidate against a splintered Republican Party, one that has controlled every lever of state government for the past eight years and yet produced absolutely nothing in the way
Read story »By FITSNews || Despite record funding increases for "education," South Carolina's high school dropout rate continues to climb - a trend that is particularly pronounced among minority and low income students. According to the latest "Diplomas Count" report - released on Wednesday by Education Week
Read story »By FITSNews || There will be no runoff. At least not as far as South Carolina Democrats are concerned. S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen - who hails from one of the Palmetto State's most prominent political families - eviscerated State Superintendent Jim Rex in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on
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