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March 12, 2004

Opposition to Carolina voucher plan increasing

The South Carolina School Boards Association wasted no time expressing its strong opposition last week to Gov. Mark Sanford's proposed tuition tax credit/voucher plan, warmly entitled the "Put Parents in Charge Act." SCSBA Executive Director Paul Krohne explains school board opposition in a new online commentary. SCSBA has been joined in recent days by state newspaper editorial boards and columnists. Thursday's The State newspaper in Columbia includes a stinging rebuke to the voucher proposal. The Herald, the Rock Hill daily, also blisters the plan in an editorial, as does the Beaufort Gazette, which writes of the plan: "It would strip away state tax dollars that could be used for education, while allowing parents to send their children to schools that aren't accountable under the same standards the state has established for public schools."

Posted March 12, 2004 12:00 AM