WLBT – Charter school concept revisited by lawmakers

Charter school concept revisited by lawmakers

Will Mississippi lawmakers approve charter schools?

A senate bill to establish five charter schools for under-performing schools in the state failed two years ago.

Legislators are now taking another look.

A movement is underway to establish charter schools in the state.

The senate has passed a bill supporting the idea.

A big concern is that they would take funding from public schools.

“It passed by a wide margin in the senate because it was a feeling in the senate that parents should have another option, and this is another option. But, the charter bill that passed the senate is a public charter school option,” said Sen. Hillman Frazier of Hinds County.

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2/17/10