Our View: New methods, same attempts would cripple public education

Our View: New methods, same attempts would cripple public education

State and local school leaders impatient with their own inabilities to fix our struggling education system are once again flailing to find overnight solutions to a problem they allowed to get worse for decades. Education leaders in Charleston and Columbia are eyeing the policy equivalent of get-rich-quick schemes that will ultimately rob South Carolina schools of taxpayer dollars needed to effectively educate our next generation.