Gov. Nikki Haley announces 2016 Education Reform Initiative
January 13, 2016
“It’s time to deal with the facilities of the schools in our state.”
Continuing her focus on statewide education reform, Governor Nikki Haley announced her 2016 Education Reform Initiative, which addresses some of the toughest issues facing education in South Carolina today – from basic governance and accountability, to building safe schools, addressing transportation needs, and providing students across the state with access to technology. The governor made the announcement during a celebration with Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman at Frances Mack Intermediate School in Gaston, S.C.
“I have said many times that my heart is always in rural areas, and growing up in Bamberg, I’ve always said we didn’t know what we didn’t have. Now I know what we didn’t have. And once we know what you didn’t have, and you know what children don’t have, you can’t ever turn away from that,” said Gov. Nikki Haley. “We’re seeing teachers having to wear rain boots to walk through the rain in schools. We’re seeing walls that are molded. We’re seeing building structures that are not safe. And so now we are saying ‘it is time to deal with the facilities of the schools in our state.’”
Starting with a commitment Governor Haley made to South Carolina’s children in 2013, this initiative is the third year of reform proposals built upon input from dozens of individual stakeholders and groups.
For details of the governor’s 2016 Education Reform Initiative, click here.
