Bill seeks to expand successes of Charleston’s Meeting Street Schools
COLUMBIA — A proposal allowing more “schools of innovation” in South Carolina is aimed at reproducing the successes of a public-private partnership started in Charleston five years ago, though teachers who oppose the idea see it as a path toward outright privatization.
One provision of House Speaker Jay Lucas’ massive proposal for transforming the state’s subpar K-12 system specifies that multiple public schools per district can get waivers from state laws and regulations as a way of providing “new, innovative, and more flexible ways of educating children.”
“This seems to be a way to privatize public schools instead of giving schools resources to improve,” the teachers’ advocacy group SC for Ed wrote to its 21,000 members.
