Today The State issued a call to action to South Carolina lawmakers: we've seen some gains over the past few years, but now is the time to buckle down and get serious about improving SC eduation, and time to end political distractions attempting to pump public funds into private schools.
Check out the full article here, and visit FightHowardRich.org to learn more about what you can do to fight the special interests trying to gut public education.The [newest] scores demonstrate, yet again, that South Carolina is not "dead last in education." That we are not bad and getting worse, as some are determined to make us believe. That our public schools are not hopeless.
But being in the middle is nothing to celebrate, less still when our scores actually drop, even if by only a fraction of a point. We need to use this latest report card as a wake-up call, as a reminder that we cannot continue to let ourselves be distracted by those who want to start throwing money at the private schools whose (highly varied) quality we never will be able to control. Instead, we need to get back to the task of improving the schools that we do control - and that we have a responsibility to make work.
