By Neil Mellen || In every profession there are certain tools. No one would tolerate a dentist who scraped plaque with wire strippers or an auto mechanic reaching for a scroll saw rather than a wrench to tighten belts.
The same is true for economists. They have precise tools specific to their trade. Tools like “demand [...]
Fuzzy Math On Parental Choice
SC Educrats Blowing Your Money To Fight Choice
As record amounts of tax dollars are being blown on South Carolina’s worst-in-the nation public school system, the educrats who are making bank off of this anti-competitive abomination are using your money to help preserve their stranglehold and keep the gravy train flowing.
According to our friends at The Voice, numerous public school districts openly lobbied [...]
Parental Choice Advancing In Oklahoma, Indiana
While South Carolina lawmakers continue to throw more taxpayer money at the nation’s worst public school system, other states are moving forward with solutions that will actually increase academic achievement.
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed the “Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act,” legislation which provides partial tax credits to individuals and businesses that donate [...]
Supporters Press SC Senate On Choice
S.C. Tea Party members and supporters of expanded parental choice packed a legislative conference room in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Wednesday.
Their objective? To support universal school choice legislation that would raise academic achievement and provide real market-based accountability within our state’s worst-in-the-nation public education system.
Unfortunately, their show of support wasn’t enough as a “Republican-controlled” education [...]
SC Educrats: The Tables Are Turning
For years, South Carolina’s big-spending public school bureaucrats (a.k.a. “educrats”) were on the offensive in their battle to preserve our state’s failed monopolistic status quo.
The funding and academic numbers weren’t on their side (far from it, in fact), but these well-heeled purveyors of failure were nonetheless able to continue living large – drawing their six-figure [...]
SC Tea Party Rallies For Parental Choice
South Carolina Tea Party leaders are rallying support for a proposal that would give Palmetto parents and children expanded options while providing a long-overdue measure of market-based accountability to our state’s worst-in-the-nation public school system.
(To read our exhaustive recap of this groundbreaking legislation, click here. To learn more about the bureaucratic forces seeking to block [...]
Flaming Arrows
Nikki Haley’s decision to abandon parental choice during her general election campaign for governor of South Carolina has infuriated many “movement” conservatives … including us.
It’s the latest example of Haley’s “shift to the center” – not to mention another repudiation of the Tea Party support that propelled her to victory in the GOP primary and [...]
Inside The Educrat Empire
You’ve heard us refer to the “education establishment” in South Carolina before, but what exactly is it?
Obviously, we all know about the State’s Ministry of Failure and Non-Competition, which employs an army of educrats to “administer” what is hands down the nation’s worst system of public education.
South Carolinians shell out over $11,000 per child – [...]
Parental Choice Advances
A bill that would give South Carolina parents dramatically-expanded choices passed a State Senate subcommittee today, a victory for a proposal that supporters of our state’s failed status quo thought they had licked.
Nonetheless, the S.C. Education Opportunity Act will be moving forward to the full Senate Education committee after a vote to “carry over” (i.e. [...]
Tell These Senators The Stench Of Failure Must Go
For generations, South Carolina has had the worst public schools that money can buy.
The only “change?”
The chronic failure of our “one-size-fits-all” approach to education keeps getting more expensive.
For the last five years, parental choice advocates in the Palmetto State have been pushing hard to bring about long-overdue reform to the way we approach education in [...]
Parental Choice: Knotts Ain’t Hearing It
Over two hundred S.C. supporters of parental choice showed up to testify at a Senate Education subcommittee meeting today, but at least one State Senator wasn’t interested in hearing what they had to say.
Perhaps Sen. Jake Knotts (RINO-Lexington) was trying to send a message – school choice supporters, after all, were part of the broad [...]
Parental Choice Savings Revealed
In addition to providing thousands of South Carolina parents with the opportunity to find a better academic environment for their children, the proposed Education Opportunity Act would also result in additional per pupil resources for public schools and savings to South Carolina taxpayers.
According to a fiscal impact study prepared by former S.C. Revenue Director Burnie [...]
