The Newsless Courier

Frank Leister's Letter to the Editor, "Parents make the difference for students," should be required reading for all concerned with improving educational outcomes in South Carolina. As he posits ...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/to-our-state-legislature-and-ccsd-focus.html

State Superintendent Molly Spearman wants to change the goal of South Carolina's education system to read more than "Minimally Adequate." We can change all the wording we want, but let's be hones...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/attacking-minimally-adequate-wording.html

"East Cooper Montessori Charter School. . . ranks among the most segregated in the state, with 89 percent white enrollment as of last school year."  Trying to imagine poor black parents gettin...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/want-diversity-in-ccsd-simply-provide.html

Remember the good old days? When reports put South Carolina at the bottom of some achievement list, we could always count on Mississippi and Alabama to bring up the rear. When it comes to educati...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/1-those-pesky-statistics-reveal.html

It sounded so promising.  When Charleston's Coalition for Kids announced its plans last July, its powerful, wealthy, and politically-connected members promised to bring serious change to the C...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/2-coalition-for-kids-dashes-hopes-for.html

The Medical University and Joint Base Charleston employ by far the largest number of workers in Charleston County. However, the number employed by the Charleston County School District is only sl...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/3-time-to-ditch-charleston-county.html

In an attempt to appear proactive, Superintendent Postlewait chose to shuffle Charleston County School District principals as though they were a deck of cards. She's still feeling the repercussio...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/4-in-ccsd-principle-of-principal.html

About this time last year, the Charleston County School Board faced the grim reality that future sales taxes are not enough to cover a rising operating budget. In fact, the Board released these f...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/5-ccsds-spending-like-drunken-sailor-on.html

The last gasp of boomers retiring from teaching echoes across the land as school districts bewail the lack of good teachers. The recruiting and retention model that worked for almost a century ha...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/6-maintaining-excellent-teaching-staff.html

Any employee of the Charleston County School District who criticizes the district will lose his or her job. That's why you never hear from current teachers or administrators when problems occur. ...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/7-ccsd-enforces-wall-of-silence-on.html

The purpose of South Carolina's Education Lottery is to take money from the poor and give it in the form of scholarships to the middle class. Well, actually, that wasn't the stated purpose, but...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/8-education-lotterys-non-support-of.html

At Number 9 on our 2018 list of top Charleston County School District stories comes the ever-expanding ability of the rich to purchase seats in CCSD's most desirable magnet schools and attendance...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/ccsds-top-10-stories-2018-9-magnets-and.html

In my arbitrary ranking of 10 problems facing the Charleston County School District during 2018, SAFETY IN SCHOOLS comes in at number 10. Just this week, our local rag published an op-ed bewail...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/charleston-county-school-district-2018.html

In order of increasing importance: Police and weapons in schools Magnet seats for sale Lottery scholarship standards /lottery support of public schools Overspending on stadiums / image consultan...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2019/01/ccsds-top-10-stories-2018.html

"What a great school system we have in Charleston County," think parents in Mt. Pleasant. A great system that has worked to the advantage of the middle and upper classes, that is. If it's so grea...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/12/eight-of-9-worst-performing-schools-in.html

"Festering payroll issues" should be renamed "festering hourly employee issues," but as usual our local rag doesn't want to put the responsibility where it belongs. Instead, it joyously reports t...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-leaner-meaner-ccsd-payroll-process.html

While in loco parentis in our public schools originally  controlled students, if the Charleston County School District wishes to narrow the achievement gap between the races, it must expand its...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/12/ccsd-must-expand-in-loco-parentis-for.html

This Letter to the Editor was from someone who understands the state's history, unlike the reporters who wrote the education series appearing last month. Education series Nov 25, 2018 "I have r...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/12/letter-writer-corrects-p-c-about-sc.html

More missing video?  We now have a third case of the Charleston County School District's failure to hand over video of a disputed incident. This time it's a five-year-old being mistakenly pick...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/sex-lies-and-video-in-charleston-county.html

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." OK, so Macbeth was a bit soured on life when he said those words, but it's about time for SC voters to be soured on school and district report card...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/sc-school-report-cards-tale-told-by.html

Funny, the news that doesn't get reported in our local newsrag.  While the exposes and trials of Brantley Thomas have dragged on, it forgot to mention that the same auditor that caused the Ber...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/charleston-county-school-district-faces.html

Did the Charleston County School District set up Prestige Prep Academy for deliberate failure? That's what you should be asking yourself about the latest failing charter school sponsored by CCSD....

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/demise-of-prestige-prep-while-ccsds.html

Why does Liberty Hill principal Chris Haynes still have his job? Does he smooze with the right people? Is he related to Mr. Big? Does he have the "goods" on the Charleston County Superintendent? ...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/liberty-hill-student-lawsuit-should.html

The Taj Mahal treats FOIA as its worst enemy. Despite the ranks of bureaucrats employed at the Charleston County School District's administrative offices, somehow responding to FOIA requests in a...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/foia-meets-ccsds-office-of-delay-linger.html

Observers reported seeing Charleston County School District buses unloading full contingents of voters at a polling place on Johns Island on election day.  Was CCSD aware that its buses were b...

http://couriercritic.blogspot.com/2018/11/ccsd-school-buses-took-voters-to-polls.html