Will 2016 be the year Mississippi prioritizes child care?
JACKSON, Miss. — A bill to create an interagency council to oversee early education programs passed the Senate’s education committee Feb. 17. The full Senate has until March 3 to vote on the proposal.
The bill’s author, Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, hopes it will break the cycle of legislative inaction on the state’s child care system. The bill is one of a dozen pieces of legislation proposed this session aimed at improving the quality of child care or making it more affordable for parents.
Hechinger Report
2/21/16
About the Author(s)
Magnolia Tribune
This article was produced by Magnolia Tribune staff.
More Like This
More From This Author
DC
|
Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press
, Leah Askarinam, Associated Press
•
July 3, 2025
House Republicans are pushing Trump’s big bill to the brink of passage
GOP leaders were up all night and the president himself worked to persuade skeptical holdouts to drop their opposition and deliver by their Fourth of July deadline.
