Over the protests of Democratic lawmakers, a comprehensive universal parental choice bill passed the Ways and Means Committee of the S.C. House of Representatives on Thursday – a major victory for South Carolina school children and their parents.
The legislation – which would give all parents a tax credit while providing scholarships for low-income students – [...]
Parental Choice Advances In SC House
School Choice Headed To Floor Of SC House
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Contact: Neil Mellen
South Carolinians for Responsible Government (SCRG)
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A bill designed to help parents choose independent schools for their children was voted out favorably from a House Committee today in Columbia. Now it’s headed to the floor of the state legislature for a roll call vote.
The proposal offers [...]
Fuzzy Math On Parental Choice
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Nikki Haley’s Report Cards …
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has every right to issue report cards grading state lawmakers on their performance as she pushes her “conservative” agenda at the State House.
Numerous other groups (including us) issue these scorecards … why shouldn’t she?
Haley also gave lawmakers fair warning about her intention to grade them … which is why it shouldn’t [...]
DeMint: “Make School Choice A Reality”
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is once again throwing his support behind the issue of expanded parental choice in education.
In a new video released on Thursday, the most popular politician in South Carolina says that “being able to choose where your child is educated is a critical part of student success that should not be limited [...]
Sic’s “Goober-view”
We hinted at this last week, but SC Hotline has published a lengthy interview with FITS founding editor Will Folks in which South Carolina’s most notorious bad boy hints at a possible third party run for governor in 2014 – but only for the purpose of “driving the debate.”
“I wouldn’t win – and I wouldn’t [...]
Good Proviso, Bad Proviso
In the ongoing debate over state spending in South Carolina, there’s a new bad guy … the “proviso.”
What’s a proviso, you ask?
Technically, provisos are spending instructions that lawmakers compile into a separate section of the state budget each year. Hundreds of them are written annually, and they have the effect of law for [...]
Charter Bill In Trouble?
A stream of GOP defections has forced supporters of a charter school funding bill – including S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and State Superintendent Mick Zais – to consider major modifications to the proposed legislation.
The issue (surprise, surprise) is the bill’s $21 million price tag … which has become particularly problematic at a time when the [...]
SC Tea Party Lobbies … Haley?
In the latest sign that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has strayed a long way from the “reform reservation” in a very short period of time, one of South Carolina’s prominent Tea Party leaders is urging his followers to contact the governor in an effort to make sure she supports … her own transparency legislation?
Say huh?
Surely [...]
