They own the local politicians ... that much we already knew. Now the sprawling educrat establishment in Spartanburg, S.C. is getting some love from the city's "conservative" mainstream media. Once among the state's most forward-thinking editorial boards, the opinion-makers at The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
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The academic prowess of Spartanburg County's public schools has been lauded of late by local "Republican" lawmakers as a way of justifying their ongoing special interest-driven betrayal of parents. According to these legislators, Spartanburg doesn't need parental choice because it's schools are among
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We hear excuses every day from status quo backers in Columbia as to why South Carolina's public education system is so atrocious. It's poverty, they say. Or racism. Or insufficient funding. Or it's the fault of parents. Then there's our favorite excuse - that the ongoing debate over parental choice
Read story »Scrolling through Sunday's editions of The Spartanburg Herald-Journal did our hearts good. Why? Because several weeks after a group of Spartanburg county "Republicans" chose to put the financial interests of our state's failed status quo above the academic interests of South Carolina school children,
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By "The Voice" || A powerful letter to the editor was published in Sunday's Spartanburg Herald Journal. It asked the question: Why did six Republicans lawmakers from Spartanburg County vote against school choice? After all, school choice has long been a cornerstone of the state’s Republican Party
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By one vote, South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" House of Representatives killed a universal school choice bill that would have provided expanded academic options for all parents and a lifeline for more than 100,000 children trapped in failing public schools. The debate took less than half an
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S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen may have lost the Palmetto state's governor's race last month - but he's still pushing ideas that he believes will make South Carolina's state government more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers it's supposed to serve. Some of them actually will ... On Thursday,
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Move over Ken Ard, there's another Palmetto Republican politician in the running for "Parent of the Year." Kevin Allen Parker - the 27-year-old son of S.C. Rep. Steve Parker - was arrested on Halloween night in Columbia, S.C. after allegedly masturbating in front of female students outside of a University
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We received a press release earlier this week from the good folks over at the S.C. Constitution Party (who?) announcing that they would be fielding a candidate for the S.C. House of Representatives in 2010 - specifically, S.C. House District 37. Amazing, right? The candidate's name? Ralph Davenport
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