Here’s how the state squandered $20M of your taxpayer dollars

By: Paul Hyde

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: March 19, 2026

Words: 807

Last Updated: 1 day, 14 hours ago

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South Carolina officials squandered more than $20 million of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars — and no one appears to be fully accountable.

Two prominent episodes — one involving homeschool subsidies and the other a massive accounting error — show how easily taxpayer money can be wasted when oversight fails.

State Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver spent more than $8.8 million subsidizing homeschooled students, an expenditure state senators say was not authorized by law.
Meanwhile, state …

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