The Post and Courier Pee Dee reports that Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight.
Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight.
As chairman of the American Association of Career Schools and vice president of Kenneth Shuler School of Cosmetology, I am watching Washington bureaucrats prepare to devastate an industry that has quietly built the backbone of South Carolina’s service economy for more than a century.
Department of Education is proposing a rule that would force the closure of beauty and wellness schools across the state — from our seven Kenneth Shuler campuses to Paul Mitchell the School in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, to family owned institutions to technical colleges offering cosmetology programs statewide and even free tuition in some cases.
The department's own projections show that 92.5 percent of cosmetology programs would fail the department's new "accountability framework," which would cause many to lose access to federal student loans and grants that make education affordable.
Drive through any community — from Columbia's Vista to Charleston's King Street, from Greenville's downtown to small towns across the Pee Dee — and you'll see the businesses our graduates have built.