Educating South Carolina

Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Educators defeat massive charter expansion bill*

Ah, Alabama.* You give us hope. If only you were nearer, so we might see more easily the lessons you offer. Word from Montgomery this wee...

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Spartanburg doesn't want unfunded bus mandate

Editors of the Herald-Journal last week detailed their skepticism of Governor Nikki Haley's scheme to privatize the state's school ...

Lawmakers seek to punish unemployed educators

Let's begin with vocabulary. "Employed" means having a job, and working. "Unemployed" means not having a job, ...

Leventis speaks truth to entrenched power

Sen. Phil Leventis has many fans and many detractors, and that's likely because he's been in office many years. As he wraps up his...

Education deform, straight from the horse's mouth

The fact that the Wall Street newspaper Investors Business Daily has given FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe space in its publicati...

Because Spartanburg needs a Texas-based charter school

When I first scanned this note, I thought High Point University, way up in North Carolina, was trying to open a charter school in Spartanbur...

Beaufort mourns loss of student leader, musician

This is a beautiful note and worthy of sharing statewide, by Island Packet reporter Erin Moody . When Craig Washington talked, everyone lis...

Zais's plan to discard public schools inches ahead

Let's see: It's a proposal that brings back segregation -- by gender, this time, but the die is cast -- and opens public school athl...

Ravitch comments on ALEC's reach into education

If you think citizens are in control of our government, think again . Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states...

Florence produces state Teacher of the Year

Ellen Meder of the Florence Morning News delivers the winner : A Pee Dee teacher took the state’s top honor for a South Carolina educator T...

Goodwin named superintendent in Chesterfield

From the Florence Morning News : The Chesterfield County School Board has selected a new superintendent to take the place of its retiring lo...

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

South Carolina: Where the rubber meets the road

Atlanta, the metropolis, identifies with several well-established brands -- Coca-Cola and CNN among them -- and is capital of the South itse...

State program too successful, will be eliminated

Say a thing often enough and the people will believe it. That was the credo of What's-His-Name Goebbels, minister of propaganda for th...

Is Ware Shoals cutting educators' pay?

A note was published last week in the Greenwood Index-Journal about a proposal to cut educators' salaries to help balance the local dis...

Ruling in Abbeville v South Carolina is long overdue

I've mentioned the Abbeville v South Carolina case several times before; it's the suit brought on behalf of several poor, rural sch...

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