Palmetto Freedom Agenda 2025-26

Education

BILLS TO WATCH:

S.62

PRIVATE SCHOOL OPTIONS FOR ALL

Enact universal education scholarship accounts

Over 2,800 South Carolina students were awarded the initial Education Scholarship Trust Fund (ESTF) grants for the 2024-25 school year. These scholarships empowered parents of modest means the ability to enjoy private options for the first time, and with the SC Supreme Court’s Eidson decision, these families are left in limbo. We have a long way to go.

 

For comparison, Florida awarded 136,087 ESA scholarships last year. With a wrongly-decided State Supreme Court decision in the rear view, we now have a roadmap to constitutionality that will allow the ESTF program to both pass legal muster and grow exponentially with universal eligibility.

Issue Overview – Education Freedom

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