Not content with denying choices to tens of thousands of low income students trapped in failing schools – or tens of thousands of middle income students stuck in mediocre schools – South Carolina’s education establishment is now seeking to impose its will upon home school families.
Specifically, a trio of status quo state lawmakers have filed [...]
SC’s Assault On Academic Freedom Continues
SC Politicians: Education Fail Is All Howard Rich’s Fault!
OUR SCHOOLS STINK BECAUSE … HUH?
For years the South Carolina Republican Party platform has called for the adoption of universal school choice legislation – a rare example of an establishment entity embracing real reform in this notoriously change-averse state. The only problem? Numerous “Republican” politicians still refuse to support parental choice. In fact two “GOP” [...]
SC Senate Moves School Choice Bill Forward
(Columbia) A plan to help low-income and disabled students attend the school of their family’s choosing moved closer to becoming law today, emerging from the Senate Finance Committee by a voice vote.
The proposal passed the House early this year and offers tax credit-funded scholarships to low-income and disabled students whose parents elect to send them [...]
The School Choice Leadership Vacuum
TIME FOR SELF-STYLED “REAGAN REPUBLICANS” TO WALK THE WALK
Earlier this week S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis reiterated his support for expanded school choice in the Palmetto Sate. A Tea Party favorite, Loftis received the most votes of any candidate on the ballot in 2010 and along with U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is viewed as one of [...]
SC School Choice Clears Another Hurdle
A bill that would help low income and disabled students attend independent schools passed a S.C. Senate subcommittee that was specifically created to examine the legislation. In fact the choice bill was actually advanced by S.C. Sen. Wes Hayes (RINO-York), a longtime opponent of expanded parental options.
Props to Hayes for his willingness to give this [...]
SC Parents Deserve Choices
By Randan Swindler || It’s no surprise that when H. 4894 passed the S.C. House of Representatives last month, the school choice community celebrated it as a victory. The bill would allow more parents the opportunity to send their children to a school of their choice: perhaps one that isn’t failing, or maybe an institution [...]
School Choice Bill Passes SC House
Legislation helping low-income and disabled students attend independent schools has passed out of the South Carolina’s House of Representatives by a vote of 65 to 49.
“Parents have the most information and best motivation to make decisions for their own children,” explained Representative Eric Bedingfield (R-Greenville), one of the bill’s chief sponsors. The plan supports low-income [...]
Parental Choice Advances
We’re not necessarily thrilled with the notion of a stripped-down parental choice bill … however we believe that any legislation which gives any students trapped in our state’s failing public schools a way out is a welcome change from the failed status quo.
Don’t get us wrong … every year that lawmakers refuse to pass a [...]
SCGOP: Make School Choice A Reality In SC
Dear Fellow Republican,
Our Republican majorities in the South Carolina Senate and House have an historic opportunity to make school choice a reality in South Carolina this year. School Choice has been a plank in our state and national platforms for years – and was an idea that former President Ronald Reagan fought for decades ago.
Over the [...]
FreedomWorks, Armey, DeMint To Rally For School Choice
FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, Jim DeMint to Participate in Spartanburg Rally for School Choice on February 2nd
WHAT: FreedomWorks and its Chairman Dick Armey will join the Spartanburg Tea Party and local conservative activists for a school choice rally in Spartanburg’s Cleveland Park from 6:30-8:30pm ET on Thursday February 2nd. The event will kick off with a [...]
FreedomWorks Pushes SC Choice Bill
NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY GROUP JOINS PUSH FOR PARENTAL CHOICE
Acknowledging South Carolina’s deteriorating academic performance and the need to inject some real market-based accountability into the system, one of the nation’s largest, most influential advocacy groups is joining the push for expanded parental choice.
FreedomWorks – a national group of conservative activists with more than 20,000 Palmetto [...]
