South Carolina
South Carolina () is a state in the southern region (Deep South) of the United States of America. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence from the British Crown during the American Revolution. The colony was originally named in honor of King Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as Carolus is Latin for Charles. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and was a founding state of the Confederate States of America. According to an estimate by the United States Census Bureau, the state's population in 2007 was 4,407,709 and ranked 24th among the U.S. states.
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The House Republican Caucus Legislative Agenda for 2008
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House Republican Caucus 2008 Agenda- Fight Illegal Immigration
The House Republican Caucus will support legislation to address the illegal immigration problems that confront South Carolina. The House passed three bills last year and bills before that and will work to make H. 4400 law. - Stop Hidden Earmark Spending
The House Republican Caucus will increase transparency in our state budget by identifying sponsors and projects
by name by working to pass H. 4346. - Tax Cuts for Families
The House Republican Caucus supports a tax cut for married couples to show our support of maintaining the nuclear family. The Caucus will also continue its comprehensive review of the existing tax code to ease the tax burden on our citizens and make South Carolina more business and family friendly. - Improve Roads and Bridges
The House Republican Caucus supports dedicating an existing steam of revenue (such as the sales tax on automobiles) to improving our state's roads and infrastructure and will work to pass separate legislation redirecting these funds. - Education Reform
The House Republican Caucus will work to reform our three-decades-old school funding formula. We will offer more choice to our state's parents. And we support reform and improvement of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test so it better serves students and teachers. - Expanding the Economy by Helping Business
Small Business: The Caucus will work to provide market-based access to health care for small businesses to help them save money and expand access to health care for their employees.
Large Business: The Caucus will work with the business community in our continuing effort to improve the economic climate of our state. - Enact a State Spending Cap
The House Republican Caucus supports imposing strict spending caps on state government. We encourage the Senate to debate and pass, and the Governor to sign, the legislation that we have repeatedly passed.
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School breakfast participation rates rank second in nation
Participation by South Carolina students in the school breakfast program last year was 101 percent, and the ratio of serving free and reduced price students at lunch and breakfast was the second highest in the nation, according to a report by the Food Research and Action Center.
Special TV broadcast will focus on how to find money to pay for a college education
A special two-hour program to assist students and parents in looking for ways to pay for a college education airs from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, January 27, on South Carolina ETV.
Message from Jim Rex
Dear Friends,As we end the week marking the celebration of the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, there are some things that we must commit to do to keep Dr. King's dream alive.
We have come a long way since Rosa Parks sat down and stood up for all of us. We have come a long way since President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. And we have come a long way since Dr. King outlined his dream. But the dream is not complete.
The dream is not complete when more than half our schools have at least 70 percent of their students living in poverty; when one in every five schools has an enrollment with more than 90 percent of the students in poverty; when half of our high school students don't graduate in four years; when a third don't graduate at all; and when we send our children to schools along the Corridor of Shame with holes in the walls, leaking roofs, broken toilets, and other Third-World-like conditions.
The dream is not complete when we as a state do not guarantee equitable and adequate funding for all of our students, whether they're urban or rural, rich or poor, black or white.
When I ran for State Superintendent of Education in 2006, a lot of people thought that I couldn't get elected. We proved all the doubters wrong, and we did what many thought couldn't be done.
As a matter of fact, we're still doing what they say can't be done. We are focusing on a five-point plan for South Carolina's schools that includes accelerating innovation, increasing public school choice, refining accountability for maximum results with minimum testing, elevating and reinvigorating our teaching profession, and providing fair and more equitable funding for schools.
A year to the day before his life was taken in Memphis, Dr. King spoke from the pulpit of the Riverside Church in New York City. That day he said something that has stuck with me.
He said, "Silence is betrayal."
It's not enough to feel empathy for the children of this state living in poverty, going to underfunded, outdated, and ineffective schools. It's not acceptable to go about our daily lives knowing about these conditions and doing nothing about it.
Dr. King said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
If you're not standing on the mountain top, yelling at the top of your voice to correct these injustices, it's the same as supporting them.
Being silent betrays tens of thousands of children, their families, their communities, and the future of our state.
The time is now to stand up, speak out, and be counted. We have waited in the wings for too long for someone else to fix this problem. This isn't someone else's problem. It's our problem. And we must fix it.
I believe that we have the potential to change course and make South Carolina the envy of the nation when it comes to our public schools. And I think we have the potential to turn around the generations of apathy and neglect that have left so many of our students, schools, and communities behind.
No one person can meet this challenge. We must do this together - if the dream is to be complete.
Sincerely,
Jim Rex
State Superintendent of Education
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