DAILY JOURNAL: OUR OPINION: Citizens provide the energy for new education initiative
The education support movement named Better Schools, Better Jobs has gained the signatures of 121,691 Mississippians backing a 2015 general election ballot initiative that would require much stronger, badly needed financial support for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a strong framework that’s suffered from chronic underfunding.
Better Schools, Better Jobs announced at a news conference Monday afternoon at the Pearl Upper Elementary School that its petition drive had brought on board 15,000 signatures above the minimum necessary to place a citizen-sponsored initiative on the ballot.
The signatures have been certified by counties’ circuit clerks, the chief elections officers in every county. The certified petitions have been delivered to Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann; he is the state’s chief elections officer.
The effort, backed by a diverse statewide coalition of public education advocates, is thoroughly bipartisan in its core of leaders and volunteers.
Daily Journal
10/8/14
Magnolia Tribune
