South Carolina Senate Republicans Say NO to Trump!
South Carolina has 7 Congressional seats. one is held by a person who is Black, Rep. Jim Clyburn. Trump urged the South Carolina legislature to redistrict and turn every seat into a Republican...
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Annie Andrews: There Is Only One Way to Stop the Spread of Measles
Annie Andrews is a pediatrician in South Carolina. She is running against Senator Lindsey Graham in the November election. She wrote: I’ve been a pediatrician for 20 years. When I learned how to take...
View ArticleArnold and Carol Hillman: What We Learned in Our Nine Years in South Carolina
Arnold and Carol Hillman spent their careers as educators in Pennsylvania. When they retired, they decided to live in a retirement community in South Carolina. But while other retirees were playing...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: State Supreme Court Overturns Vouchers
Republican-controlled states have been on a crusade to enact vouchers, with the alone stimulus of billionaire lobbying dollars. We know from Michigan State University scholar Josh Cowen that most...
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South Carolina Imposes Sweeping Book Censorship on School Libraries
Judd Legum at Popular Information writes about South Carolina’s sweeping censorship of school libraries. The state superintendent Ellen Weaver is affiliated with the notorious Moms for Liberty....
View ArticleSouth Carolina: Charter Fraud and Profits!
Carol Burris writes here about a charter scandal in South Carolina. Carol is the executive director of the Network for Public Education. She writes: Last week, an excellent investigative report on a...
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Jonathan V. Last: Trump Showed His Vulnerabilities in South Carolina
Jonathan V. Last edits The Bulwark, an outstanding Never Trump site. He thinks that South Carolina showed big holes in Trump’s vote. He writes: Let’s start with the exit polls. Haley kept it close:...
View ArticlePaul Bowers: Reconciling/Resisting Christian Faith and Christian Haters
Paul Bowers used to be the education reporter for the Charleston News & Courier. I contacted him when I was trying to understand some issues that he wrote about. Paul left his newspaper job (I...
View ArticleA Video Link to the Conversation about Privatization
Several readers told me they were unable to access my conversation with Todd Scholl of the South Carolina Center for Educatot Wellness and Learning. We talked about attacks on public schools,...
View ArticleTune in Tonight at 7 PM EST for My Talk About Privatization and Attacks on...
I will be in conversation with Todd Scholl of the Center for Educator Wellness & Learning in South Carolina tonight February 15 at 7 pm EST. We will talk about privatization of public schools and...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: Moms for Liberty Will Open Their Own Charter School in...
Steve Bailey, an opinion writer for the Charleston Post and Courier, wrote recently about the new charter school that will open in an affluent neighborhood in Charleston. It will use the Hillsdale...
View ArticleJoshua Zeitz: Why Nikki Haley Did Not Admit that Slavery Was a Leading Cause...
Joshua Zeitz is a historian and contributor to Politico. He writes here about Nikki Haley’s failure to admit that slavery was a leading cause, maybe THE leading cause, of the Civil War. Someone asked...
View ArticleAdd Another Scandal to the GOP “Family Values” Facade
For decades, the GOP has claimed to be the party of “family values.” From what we have read recently about Governor Noem of South Dakota, who allegedly was romantically entangled with a Trump aide,...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: State Supreme Court Upholds Near Total Ban on Abortion
The Republicans continue their war against abortion, even though the majority in every state want to keep it legal. Few if any women realize they are pregnant at the six-week mark. The South Carolina...
View ArticlePaul Bowers: South Carolina Increases Class Sizes, Decreases Funding
Paul Bowers, who covered education for the Charleston Post and Courier, writes on his blog Brutal South about deteriorating working conditions for the state’s teachers. Class sizes are rising, and the...
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Paul Bowers: South Carolina Must Not Ban Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World...
Paul Bowers is an education journalist and blogger in South Carolina. He is a graduate of Siuth Carolina’s public schools and his children attend them. He writes here about what happened when the...
View ArticleAndy Brack: What the Governor of South Carolina Said. Will He Apologize?
Andy Brack is editor of Statehouse Report and the Charleston City Paper. This column is reprinted with the permission of the Charleston City Paper. BRACK: McMaster needs to go to apology school By...
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Gavin Newsom: GOP in South Carolina Ignore What Matters Most
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, regularly sends out emails pointing out the errors and hypocrisies of Republicans in other states. I enjoy them. South Carolina, Diane… Where the Republican...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: Charter School Builds a Sports Powerhouse
I remember when the idea of charter schools was first introduced. Charters would provide innovative schools whose basic purpose was “to save poor kids from failing public schools.” Vouchers had the...
View ArticlePaul Bowers: Beware Nikki Haley and Her Apocalyptic Hero!
Paul Bowers is an experienced journalist who writes a fascinating blog about South Carolina called “Brutal South.” In this post, he tells us who Nikki Haley, Republican Presidential candidate, is and...
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