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September 13, 2016

Charter School Authorizer Board denies new charter school operators

Charter board votes down new schools in Jackson No new charters schools were approved by Mississippi’s Charter School Authorizer Board this year. The board voted 4-2 on Monday to deny an application from Ohio-based I Can Schools that sought to open three elementary schools in Jackson. The board cited concerns over test performance in the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 13, 2016

@msdemocrats, chair @BobbyMoakMSDem attempt to fundraise off of Republicans’ “bad math”

From the Mississippi Democrat Party email dated 9/12/16: “Continued tax cuts, mostly to business entities, have led to declining state revenues and deep cuts to state agencies, threatening to send Mississippi over the precipice into a financial disaster.” (Clarion Ledger, MS BUDGET CRISIS) In only three months into this fiscal year, Governor Phil Bryant made…