Tag Archive: Department of Education

Across the nation, an innovation known as Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) is enjoying strong, bipartisan, legislative, parental, and taxpayer support. Why? Because with ESAs, a basic principle of fairness and freedom is achieved: state-appropriated education dollars follow the child. With that aspiration fulfilled, every child, but especially the most vulnerable, can finally receive the customized education they need to reach their full potential.

Ellen Weaver comments on the nomination of former SC Superintendent of Education Mick Zais' nomination to be Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.

Ultimately, the Abbeville ruling reinforces what we already know: too many students do not have access to a quality education in South Carolina.

In the last 3 years, SC has made precious little progress on these same kinds of reforms that could right the education ship for our students.