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South Carolina Court Strikes Down School Choice Program

South Carolina dad David Warner is afraid to tell his sixth-grade son that he will have to leave his school, teachers, and friends because the state Supreme Court struck down the Palmetto State’s school voucher program.

“Today definitely felt like a kick in the stomach,” Warner said.

The Warner family was using an education savings account to send their son to a private, Christian school this year. But after the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday decided the school choice law that enabled low-income parents to use Education Savings Accounts to send their children to private schools, the Warner family will have to send their son back to a public school in the middle of the first semester of the school year.

“I dread that conversation with my son, where I have to tell him, we have to go back, and you’re going to leave all these new friends that you’ve…

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