Initiative push to fund schools
Amid growing frustrations about how public education in Mississippi is paid for, a push is being made to put a ballot initiative together aimed to put the state Legislature’s “feet to the fire” and cover the cost of schools.
Called Initiative 42, or Better Schools=Better Jobs, supporters are now waiting on approval from the Secretary of State’s office to have it put up for a vote next year.
Claiborne Barksdale, CEO of the Oxford-based Barksdale Reading Institute and one of the people supporting Initiative 42, spoke to the Olive Branch Rotary Club about it Tuesday.
“If you think it is important that the public schools be good public schools and that we have an educated populace in the state,” Barksdale said. “Then I would suggest to you that it makes sense the public schools be funded adequately as well. That’s what this is all about.”
Desoto Times
11/20/14
Magnolia Tribune
