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September 9, 2016

#msleg told of large turnover in Mental Healt direct care workers

Mental Health faces large turnover The turnover rate for the 2,900 direct care workers employed by the Department of Mental Health was 48 percent for fiscal year 2015, legislators were told Wednesday. In addition, it costs between $2,300 and $2,600 to train new direct care workers. Wendy Bailey, a spokeswoman for the Department of Mental…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 9, 2016

Speaker Gunn tells Community College exec dir. #msleg wants to get money into classrooms

Speaker questions division of work force for community colleges House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, told the executive director of the Mississippi Community College Board that perhaps the 15 community colleges are not focusing their resources on the classroom. Gunn made his comments Thursday after Community College Board Executive Director Andrea Mayfield said of the schools’…