Today’s The State (June25, 2017) reports that South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas (R-Darlington) thinks that the House should be dismissed from the suit (Abbeville v. South Carolina) to address the needs of the state’s poorest school districts. He claims, “‘I believe our work achieves a higher standard than the court’s definition of minimally adequate education.'” And yet the The State indicates that “few of the House proposals … have become law.” That would seem to be lower (not higher) than the court’s definition (which is already unacceptably low).
A. Scott Henderson 