Nikki Haley’s “Education” Plan Is Coming …
During her six years in the S.C. General Assembly, Nikki Haley was one of South Carolina’s mosYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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‘choice’ is a hollow concept. most towns in SC cannot support more than one school. the only places that have ‘choice’ already enjoy a plethora of well-funded suburban schools. you need to find a new catch-phrase to mindlessly toss about Fits.
Good story. I used to be against market-run education but now I am for anything that will head off the millions of Chinese and indian schoolchildren who will crawl all over us and take over technology and science in the next three decades unless we do something. ANYTHING. All my life SC was at the bottom of the rankings. It is sad.
That goddamn jacket again…it must be an old pet or something she can’t let go of?
Used to be.
The numerous (and repeated) photos of that jacket posted on Fitsnews cause me to believe that Sic has fond memories of Nikki wearing it on “special occasions”. My thought is that this is the closest he can get to remembering those encounters without raising the wrath of Mrs. Sic. When he publishes his book/expose she will probably be wearing that jacket in every photo.
The governor shouldn’t drive education reform.
Superintendent of education should, And the effort should be developed from input of school districts on up, not vice versa.
The folks in the classrooms know the dealio, the politcos, not so much.
Politicians ‘driving education reform’ is what eff upped education to begin with.
It’s just the usual Nikki self-promotion campain noise.
No differnt from any other pol in that regard, I suppose.
Just a thought. Maybe if we put as much time, energy and money into education as we do to football in this state we would have a better educational system. You could set up a gamecock club, iptay or whatever college type booster club at every school and donate tons of money. We could have 80k+ screaming fans at graduation cheering on the students, not just the football team.
If funding was an issue, why does SC fund at close the the 50th percentile in terms of states, but routinely finishes in the bottom 10 in testing?
If we double the funding can we expect to at least be in the bottom 20?
You missed the part about time and energy.
Oh, so without more commitments of time and energy than the funds won’t help? Good to know. Tell you what, when you get people to commit to more of both than I’m on board with more money.
Yep, we need much more involvement with the schools. I taught a very limited time way back when and what I saw was that the more commitment of time and energy by parents and supporters of individual students, the better the student did.
Don’t even play into this nonsense. This is all about getting money into the pockets of Private School parents and PRIVATE BUSINESSES at the expense of everyone else. The average South Carolinian pays less than $1200 a year to support public education, but just ask how much of a tax credit the private school folks want. Hint its a lot more than they are paying for public education. So where is that additional money coming from? They want the rest of us to pay for their private school tuition at a PRIVATE BUSINESS, with absolutely no input as to how our money is expended.
Haley has national aspirations and no doubt she will do everything she feels she can get away with to sell out the children of middle class and low income parents in SC in exchange for money from the likes of Howard Rich and the Koch Brothers.
So if you are a public school parent or have no children in school, grab your wallets, because they are coming after you.
3 years of inaction and NOW she wants to do something in a election year – big surprise.
What is more shocking is that FITS will endorse her!