A long-time advocate of school choice and South Carolina’s first new Superintendent of Education in nearly a decade.

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Independent Women’s Forum is delighted to announce that Ellen Weaver, South Carolina’s new superintendent of education, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .

Weaver was sworn in as superintendent of education last January, becoming the state’s first new superintendent in nearly a decade. Her predecessor had retired, ensuring that the race to succeed her would be a hard-fought affair. The job will be demanding, too. “Unfortunately, almost two-thirds of our children here in South Carolina are not reading or doing math at grade level,” Weaver tells IWF. “And so, we have our work cut out for us. The most important thing we can do is focus on literacy in the early grades. Everything in education rises and falls on a student having strong reading skills.”

“Even math is very much based on that literacy component,” Weaver continues, “when you think about students doing word problems, and analyzing the numbers that are in front of them.”

To improve the prospects of South Carolina’s children, Weaver advocates school choice and a plan her campaign dubbed “STP”—for students, teachers, and parents. STP places emphasis on “foundational skills.” Weaver is a long-time advocate of school choice. She is also bringing to South Carolina LETRS, a program that trains teachers in the science of reading.

A third-generation Bob Jones University graduate, Weaver worked for former Senator Jim DeMint in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina. She is the founder of the Palmetto Promise Institute, a think tank dedicated to promoting “a free and flourishing South Carolina, where every individual has the opportunity to reach their full, God-given potential.”

We know you will enjoy meeting Ellen Weaver and learning of her plans to make a first-rate education available to the children of South Carolina.
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Charlotte Hays
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