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December 29, 2016

SALTER: PERS faces unsustainable conditions

Sid Salter: Public pension issue will grow into crisis PERS officials are quick to point out that Mississippi’s pension system is not in “crisis” at this time and that’s true. But our state’s share of the national economic problem of low rates of return on pension system investments and a growing imbalance in the number…
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December 28, 2016

#msleg PEER report recommends more funding for Charter School Authorizer Board

Report calls for more charter school funding The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, or PEER, is required by law to analyze finances for Mississippi’s fledgling charter schools system, created by legislation in 2013. The report says that funding for charter schools is not providing enough money to also run the Mississippi…