SC schools are at the bottom of every list. Thank goodness for Mississippi, right?

Nonsense.

SC uses an infamous phrase to describe the standard of education we will provide: "minimally adequate".

State law also includes a school funding formula. For next year, it works out to $2790 per child.

This year's funding was $778 per child BELOW that, even though we had a billion dollar surplus. A school with 700 students is missing over a half-million dollars.

Like many South Carolina districts, Berkeley County has experienced explosive growth over the last decade. Current facilities are aging, and were never meant to accomodate the number of students they now serve.

It's time to replace trailers with classrooms