Palmetto Promise Institute – FAILED Legislative Analysis

UPDATE: Although this post is dated May 2016 when PPI originally published their legislative analysis … we now know it was a complete failure.

May 2016 | In the heat of the last minute legislative takeover of South Carolina’s school choice program (by Republicans incidentally) … Palmetto Promise Institute (an self-proclaimed conservative think tank) came out with a “Legislative Analysis” supporting the takeover … going so far as to say under the governments administration the independent school choice program would be …

Bigger, Better, Faster.

Well, nothing could have been more flawed or wrong.

Since the SC Department of Revenue and the 5 person legislatively appointed board at (not so) Exceptional SC took over the program … it has been an indisputable administrative disaster … and Palmetto Promise Institute has removed their failed Legislative Analysis …

So, the question is, “why” would a self-proclaimed conservative and limited government / free-market think tank organization like Palmetto Promise Institute support what is now the NATION’S ONLY government run K-12 tax credit scholarship program? Two months later Palmetto Promise Institute was celebrating Dr. Milton Friedman’s birthday.

One moment they are touting the benefits of the GOVERNMENT running a K-12 private school choice program …. and two months later they are celebrating Dr. Milton Friedman? Well we all know what Dr. Friedman thinks about government and school choice …

“The only thing that worries me about school choice is government intervention.” Dr. Milton Friedman

Looks like Dr. Friedman was right … and Palmetto Promise Institute was wrong. The question is, why? Stay tuned …

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