Mercedes Schneider on “Moms for Liberty” Takeover of Local School Board: Let...
Mercedes Schneider describes the arbitrary and capricious actions of the Berkeley School Board in South Carolina. “Moms for Liberty” won control of the board in the recent election. At its first...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: New State Superintendent Spreads Conspiracy Theories
I was happy to discover this post on the Network for Public Education, which is curated by teacher-blogger Peter Greene. It was written by South Carolina teacher Steve Nuzum. A South Carolina think...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: A Brave District Superintendent Asks Whether “School Choice”...
A friend in South Carolina sent me this public statement by a fearless district superintendent. He asked questions that most state legislators cannot answer. He knows that vouchers will subsidize the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina: 21 Republicans Want Death Penalty for Women Who Get Abortions
Now, here is an example of the extremism and stupidity that has overtaken the Republican Party. A group of 21 Republican legislators in South Carolina want to impose the death penalty on any woman who...
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...
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...
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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 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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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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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 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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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....
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