Kristin Maguire of Clemson was elected today to be the leader of the state Board of Education in 2009.

Maguire, who teaches her four daughters at home, was nominated from the floor during the panel’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The 17-member school board historically votes each December to pick a “chair-elect” a year in advance of when the term is scheduled to begin.

No other state school board in the nation is headed by a person who is a home-school educator, according to National Association of State Boards of Education.

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I didn’t think this woman had a prayer of being elected Chairman of the State Board of Education because she has received a lot of criticism about home schooling her four kids.  This is awesome.  Now we have someone who is outside of the bureaucracy and the status quo of the failed public education system we have in this country to bring new and fresh ideas.  South Carolina, leading the way.