Voice for School Choice

The Voice for School Choice

• UPDATE YOUR RSS: Voice for School Choice is Moving!
  “The Voice” is moving to a new domain. The new site is www.VoiceForSchoolChoice.com Note that we have removed the article “the” from the URL. Please update your favorites, bookmarks, and RSS feeds. Links on and off site will be mirrored … Continue reading →
  
  
• UPDATE YOUR LINKS: Voice for School Choice is Moving!
  “The Voice” is moving to a new domain. The new site is www.VoiceForSchoolChoice.com Note that we have removed the article “the” from the URL. Please update your favorites, bookmarks, and RSS feeds. Links on and off site will be mirrored … Continue reading →
  
  
• SITE UPDATE: Voice for School Choice is Moving!
  “The Voice” is moving to a new domain. The new site is www.VoiceForSchoolChoice.com Note that we have removed the article “the” from the URL. Please update your favorites, bookmarks, and RSS feeds. Links on and off site will be mirrored … Continue reading →
  
  
• Public School Achievement Gap in South Carolina
  The “Achievement Gap” is a name used to describe the persistent and unjust disparity between test scores among different  racial and economic groups enrolled in South Carolina’s government schools. New data have been released, and some are hoping it constitutes … Continue reading →
  
  
• Jim Rex Calls for Major Sales Tax Hike
  “I think that might be seen in South Carolina as defensible.” -Superintendent “Dropout Jim” Rex on lifting the sales tax cap on cars, planes and boats From the time that cuts to the state budget were first considered a necessity, … Continue reading →
  
  
• Probe into PACT Cheating Scandal Comes Up Empty?
  A SLED investigation into MiShawna Moore, erstwhile darling of the South Carolina education establishment and suspected test “tailor,” has come up with nothing. As principal of Sanders-Clyde Elementary, a chronically failing public school in Charleston County, Moore came under heavy … Continue reading →
  
  
• Department of Education gives Consultants $391,469 Stimulus Package
  It’s that time again. The time when South Carolina taxpayers can see just how much money the “strapped” SC State Department of Education has paid out to education contractors and consultants during a recession. This month, almost $400,000 was doled … Continue reading →
  
  
• Frustration with Lexington-Richland 5
  “Not to worry, it’s not real money, it’s public money!” A letter to the editor of the State Newspaper. “District 5 has problem with openness” “I read with interest school board chairman Robert Gantt’s op-ed (“Community supports District 5 building … Continue reading →
  
  
• Traditional Public Schools Not Ideal for Every Child
  One-size-fits-all government schools: YOUR tax dollars forcing a square peg into a round hole. With the help of a $191,000 federal grant, an after-school program will be able starting up at an Aiken County elementary school. “Aiken Families in Transition,” … Continue reading →
  
  
• 2009 SC Legislative Wrap-up (BUDGET & SPENDING)
  In December and January the Voice posted summaries of legislation introduced in the South Carolina State Legislature. Here, seven months later, is an overview of the status of those and other bills relating to the budget and state spending practices. … Continue reading →