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Senate Bill 1048 On Charter Schools is Bad Policy (2004)

May 28, 2004. Left unchecked, South Carolina could join a growing cadre of states that hold harmless school districts whose students choose to attend charter schools.

Not only are school districts that receive funding for students who attend charters relieved of the consequences of their failures, but more ominous heading into future debates is the fact that the resulting artificially inflated education budgets created by such laws are ripe for cuts in times of fiscal hardship.