Another busy week in the war on young people.

Updates from the South Carolina State Board of Education and Senate Medical Affairs

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Update on South Carolina book challenge regulations:

Yesterday was another uncharacteristically long day at the South Carolina State Board of Education. In both the early morning Policy meeting and the afternoon Full Board meeting, there were enough speakers to require motions to shorten public comment. I was able to speak in the morning session, but there was a only time for about half of my planned remarks.

The State Board, usually a fairly sleepy bureaucratic entity that focuses on the nuts and bolts of implementing state education law (the parts the state hasn’t reallocated to other entities, like the Education Oversight Committee over the years— with the apparent intent of weakening the State Board’s reach) has been roiled for months by a book censorship regulation evidently introduced by Superintendent Ellen Weaver. Committee meetings and Full Board me…