AP Analysis: Education focus shifts to implementation

AP Analysis: Education focus shifts to implementation

If 2013 was the education session for Mississippi’s Legislature, it will be followed by the implementation season.

State leaders will have to create structures to authorize charter schools and fund prekindergarten programs. Literacy coaches will have to be hired to implement a new focus on reading grades K-3, along with training for thousands of teachers.

Along the way, more money will be required to bring some of the visions to fruition. And traditional demands for higher teacher pay and more state aid to local schools could rebound, especially as the 2015 state elections near.

AP
4/9/13