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Jeff Perez, president and CEO of South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, or SCICU, estimates that the provision has made the state’s private colleges miss out on more than $14 million in federal coronavirus relief funding that was routed through the state government, including $2.4 million that would have been allocated specifically for five private historically Black colleges to upgrade their online education offerings.
“What we’re looking to do is to strike this provision, because No. 1, it’s the right thing to do it’s wrong to have this kind of racist and antireligious provision in our constitution,” Perez said. “And No. 2, its legacy is to deprive institutions that are members of my organization from receiving the funding that Congress, that our governor and the General Assembly intended us to receive.”
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A group of private school organizations are filing a federal lawsuit challenging a portion of South Carolina s state Constitution that says public funds cannot be used directly for private or religious entities.
The Liberty Justice Center announced the lawsuit on Wednesday, which opposes a section in Article XI of the state constitution commonly referred to as the Blaine Amendment.
Daniel Suhr, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center law firm, said the suit was spurred by a failed attempt by Gov. Henry McMaster to provide private schools with coronavirus aid money.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Charleston on Wednesday and lists McMaster; Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Administration Marcia Adams; and South Carolina Department of Administration budget director Brian Gaines as defendants.