RT @JordanLawrence: “It’s coming for everybody." @ChrisTrainorSC with a look at how still-increasing liquor liability costs are impacting…

Federal officials notified the S.C. Department of Education in November that its monitoring of charter school sponsors was inadequate and pressed state officials to develop new written oversight policies within 90 days. The state has appealed the order.

Richland 1 has paid a mysterious landscaping company $864,000 this year and at least $2.6 million since 2013, records show. The State dug into the district's relationship with the incompletely licensed and, until recently, unincorporated company.

Erskine College, which has spent the past two years under sanction for governance and financial management failures, has been placed on “probation with good cause,” but will remain fully accredited.

The Palmetto Promise Institute has secured another $500,000 donation for families who lost their school vouchers following the SC Supreme Court decision earlier this year that found portions of the Education Scholarship Trust Fund law unconstitutional

Yass is a major school choice advocate and Republican megadonor whose School Freedom Fund pumped more than $750,000 into the 2022 SC state superintendent race to help Ellen Weaver defeat Kathy Maness in the GOP primary.

Should SC bury more of its power lines? There may be some legislative support to at least study the prospect

NEW: An independent state oversight agency will open an investigation into the Charter Institute at Erskine. The probe comes at the request of lawmakers concerned about the Institute's financial relationships with vendors and education management companies

"It is unconscionable that the Supreme Court would rip away these scholarships from children and families counting on the funds for their education this year.” - Wendy Damron, PPI president

NEW: A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16-year-old patient at a Lexington County urgent care center worked with vulnerable children at a Columbia high school last year, an investigation by The State has found.

NEW: A third private SC college has registered to sponsor charter schools. The move comes as state lawmakers are contemplating a crackdown on charter school authorizers amid growing concerns about their operations and spending of taxpayer dollars.

RT @AlexaJurado6: BREAKING: The South Carolina Inspector General has released its investigation into Richland School District 1. As I was r…

@mr_nuzum Are you referring to the one that lets schools unilaterally transfer if their higher ed authorizer is on probation or under warning from its accreditor? If so, yes she did. Although it was the slightly different Senate version of that proviso that made it into the budget