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Burying the bigotry of South Carolina s Blaine amendment
Paul Clement and Jeanne Allen, opinion contributors
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Burying the bigotry of South Carolina s Blaine amendment
A recently filed lawsuit could make South Carolina the second state in the nation to be forced to stop using vestiges of 19
th century bigotry, in the form of the Blaine Amendments, to block 21
st century education reform.
When Congress passed the CARES Act last March, it included emergency educational relief funds that states could direct to schools and other educational institutions affected by COVID-19. With some of those funds, South Carolina created a grant program that would have allowed students to apply for need-based grants and use the funds to attend private schools of their choice. That grant program was timely, because private schools were proving themselves far more adept than public schools at responding to the educational challenges posed by COVID ....

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