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October 17, 2016

DAILY JOURNAL editorial: #MAEP discussion healthy, taxpayers should know who put @EdBuild money

DAILY JOURNAL editorial – OUR OPINION: Work at a bipartisan table on MAAEP formula revisions The announcement last week by Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves that they have agreed to a $250,000 contract with a New Jersey firm to study possible revisions in the MAEP funding formula brought forth reactions that have…
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October 17, 2016

Speaker Gunn says #MAEP reform not a backdoor attempt to expand charter schools

Speaker: Funding study won’t include charter school expansion House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, said efforts to revamp Mississippi’s school funding formula will not be a backdoor attempt to expand the state’s charter school laws. “What we have done on charter schools is what we are going to do,” Gunn said, adding he wants to see…