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January 18, 2017

Effort at state contract reform under consideration again in #msleg

Polk, Turner take another shot at contract reforms Senate and House Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Chairmen John Polk and Jerry Turner are taking another crack at state contract reform. In 2015, in large part a response to the massive federal corruption case against former state Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps who steered hundreds of millions of…
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January 18, 2017

Democrat Legislators want to see district comparisons between @EdBuild recommendations and #MAEP

Democrats to EdBuild: Show us the money for districts But Democratic legislators say her one-hour presentation had a glaring omission. There was no data breaking down the dollar amounts of what each of the state’s 144 districts would receive (or possibly lose) under the new system. Sibilia said her group is waiting for the go-ahead…