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This article was first published on palmettopromise.org South Carolina’s K-12 education system suffers not despite its variety of revenue streams, but because of them. A tangled web of different revenue sources, costly mandates and new programs has pushed up administrative costs while perpetuating student underperformance. And worse, the current… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org South Carolina’s public schools are supported by a host of education funding sources that have seen healthy growth over the years. But are taxpayers getting their money’s worth? A new study by the Palmetto Promise Institute reveals the disconnect between revenue and results… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org During the forty years since the passage of the Education Finance Act (1977), South Carolina’s K-12 education financing system has evolved in a piecemeal fashion to become a complex spider web of funding. Since 2001, per-pupil expenditures have grown faster than inflation,… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org Ellen Weaver, President of Palmetto Promise Institute, recently testified before the South Carolina House Education Reform Committee on the critical need to reform South Carolina’s broken education funding system. Her remarks previewed groundbreaking research commissioned by Palmetto Promise and performed by Dr. Rebecca… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org Palmetto Promise Institute has long been an advocate to Fund Students and Fix Systems. This week, Dr. Barbara Stock Nielsen, South Carolina’s first Republican Superintendent of Education, testified to a South Carolina House Ways and Means subcommittee about four key ideas to… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org Is there such a thing as an “average” child? As parents of multiple children can attest, even those born within the same family differ dramatically in personality, aptitudes and interests! But the way we approach public education all too often is still… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org People are different. Everyone has different attitudes, different motivations, different competencies, and different personalities. It does not take long before a notion of “human sameness” is recognized as far from reality. Thankfully, as people are different, so are schools – because one… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org Though the General Assembly has adjourned for the year, we are glad to report that one of Palmetto Promise Institute’s top priorities for the 2017-2018 legislative session is still in play. Here’s a very quick background. According to a new federal law,… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org S. 622A BILLTO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, TO ESTABLISH THE “EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNT ACT” BY ADDING CHAPTER 8 TO TITLE 59 SO AS TO PROVIDE A CITATION, TO STATE THE PURPOSE OF THE CHAPTER, TO… Read More

This article was first published on palmettopromise.org South Carolina students once led Florida students in key education metrics according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Not anymore. The monumental shift occurred more than a decade ago, but while Florida continues to implement innovative education reforms aimed at… Read More