School Choice Champions Emerge During Debate
In the midst of the ongoing school choice debate over “unbundlers” in the ESTF program, three school choice champions rose above the rest: Senator Jason Elliott (R-Greenville), Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley), and Representative Steven Long (R-Spartanburg). All three took the opportunity to defend the ESTF program – Senators Elliott and Grooms during a Senate Education
House Agrees to $309M Senate Income Tax Roll Back, Cuts Overtime & Bonus Taxes, Too
South Carolina taxpayers were the winners this week in a friendly game of chicken between the Senate and the House over how deeply to cut the state’s top marginal individual income tax rate. But before we get to the details of a busy money week for the legislature, here is a short tax cut history.
SC Lawmakers Seem to Be Allergic to Educational Opportunity
This article, published originally in The Daily Signal, features commentary from Palmetto Promise Visiting Fellow and Acting Director of the Center for Education Opportunity at the Heritage Foundation Jonathan Butcher. Why do South Carolina lawmakers want to make it more difficult for families to educate their children? Lawmakers are misinterpreting the very law they
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