Re: “Lazenby: A Liberal Argues For School Choice”
Dear Ms Lazenby,
I applaud the logic and literary quality of what you’ve written that I’ve read in FITSNEWS recently about School Choice. I hope you continue to write in that vein.
Some of my thoughts about this issue: School Choice is using public funds to subsidize a parent who chooses that his child [...]
Letter To Lazenby On School Choice
SC Education Reform: Points On The Board
South Carolina’s left-leaning State Senate took a few baby steps toward real reform this week – approving tax credits for private school teachers who purchase their own school supplies and creating tax-exempt scholarship granting organizations (SGOs) for students with special needs.
Both reforms were included in the FY 2013-14 budget plan adopted by the Senate this [...]
SC Club For Growth: Nine “Republican” Senators Vote Against Choice
Friends,
There is good news, bad news and worse news.
The good news is last night the Senate, in a historic vote, finally took up school choice. Although the amendment was defeated we finally know who supports the failed status quo system, and who wants to move South Carolina forward.
Senator Larry Grooms, who authored this amendment, explained how [...]
SC Senate Screws Kids … Again
Nine “Republicans” – including four “former” Democrats and the self-proclaimed “conservative” leader of the GOP-controlled South Carolina Senate – voted against a scaled down parental choice measure this week. The vote to reject the measure – which was sponsored by longtime school choice champion Larry Grooms – comes as many of these lawmakers are opting to join [...]
Lazenby: About That School Choice Story
Earlier this week I wrote an opinion piece for this website asking lawmakers to address the immediate concerns of parents whose children are enrolled in a flawed public education system in South Carolina by passing some form of school choice legislation.
I won’t re-hash that piece here because you can read if for yourself, but I would [...]
Lazenby: A Liberal Argues For School Choice
The South Carolina Senate is set to vote on a budget amendment next week regarding the contentious issue of school choice. The amendment, if passed, will allow parents to take state tax deductions of up to $4,000 a year for tuition paid to send their children to private schools, $2,000 a year if they homeschool their children, and $1,000 a [...]
Hugh Leatherman’s School Choice Farce
This website has pointed out repeatedly that South Carolina is a state which has no interest in helping itself. Both the state’s elected officials and the people who re-elect them seem willing – or at least consigned to – languishing a century behind the rest of Western Civilization.
Don’t believe us? Look at the numbers …
Nowhere [...]
Federal Choice
U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Indiana) is unveiling school choice legislation at the federal level in the coming days. So yeah … go ahead and cue the chorus of wails and moans from left-leaning unions, legacy media and bureaucrats (and from U.S. President Barack Obama, an ardent opponent of choice).
Rokita’s bill – the Educational Opportunities Act [...]
Cato: NH Governor Versus Kids, Taxpayers
In her budget address before the legislature last Thursday, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan pledged to repeal the nascent Opportunity Scholarship Act (OSA). The law grants tax credits to businesses that help low- and middle-income students afford independent and home schooling.
If the governor’s goal is saving money, as she claims, then she should oppose the repeal. [...]
Howard Rich: Not Backing Down On School Choice
Limited government advocate Howard Rich unloaded on his liberal critics in the mainstream media this week – while at the same time vowing to “redouble” his efforts on behalf of expanded parental choice in South Carolina. Rich also previewed how he intends to help push school choice – which passed the S.C. House of Representatives [...]
SC Education Monopoly: “Minimally Whatever”
MORE “HIGH QUALITY” BULLSHIT FROM SOUTH CAROLINA’S FAILED STATUS QUO
S.C. Rep. James Smith (D-Columbia) wants to change South Carolina’s constitution to reflect what he believes would be a deeper commitment to our state’s failing government-run school system. You know … because the nearly $12,000 per child taxpayers spend each year propping up this anti-competitive abomination [...]
Sic Willie: “Extremist”
FITS’ PROPOSAL TO PRIVATIZE HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA DRAWS JEERS
Last week this website reiterated its belief that the Palmetto State’s costly, duplicative system of higher education should be privatized.
“It’s past time that all of our government-funded institutions of higher learning pursue their destinies as private institutions,” we wrote.
This strikes us as an eminently sensible reform, unless [...]
