State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds said Wednesday the state would need at least $3 million to fund proposed controversial legislation that would remove school boards from repeatedly failing school districts.
Bounds said the Children First Act of 2009 – a bill recommended by a legislative task force on underperforming schools – is radical but needed to move Mississippi forward.
“This is where we draw a line in the sand and say we can’t allow children to continue in a failing school system,” Bounds told reporters at a meeting in Jackson.
The bill doesn’t have an official price tag, but would afford the state Department of Education many benefits, Bounds said.
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