Statewide Politics and Building South Carolina to Support its Citizens - Guest Representative and Gubernatorial Jermaine Johnson

About this episode

Joel discusses South Carolina politics and policy developments with gubernatorial candidate Jermaine Johnson.

Joel sits down with representative and democratic gubernatorial candidate Jermaine Johnson to discuss a breadth of developments happening in SC politics and what to expect from our next year of policy at the Capital. Hear about South Carolina's push to fix a deficiency of teachers - including joining a multi-state teacher compact - legislators' attempt at a pay raise, the increasingly controversial SC Attorney General Race, homeschool students using public dollars, bringing politics back to h...

People in this episode

Host: Joel Lourie

Guest: Jermaine Johnson

Topics covered

• South Carolina politics
• gubernatorial race
• education policy
• teacher compact
• legislative developments

Keywords

• South Carolina
• politics
• gubernatorial candidate
• education
• teacher pay raise
• homeschool funding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SC Attorney General

Places: South Carolina

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