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September 29, 2016

Judge allows pro-charter school group to intervene in lawsuit

Pro-charter school groups join lawsuit over money A Hinds County judge will let three groups that favor charter schools intervene in a lawsuit challenging whether such schools can legally receive Mississippi education money. Mike Hurst, representing a group of parents from Midtown Public Charter School, says Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas made the decision after a…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 29, 2016

DOJ to send fewer election observers to Mississippi

Feds will send fewer election observers Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently announced the Justice Department will send fewer federal election observers this fall. The change is one of several in the wake of a 2013 Supreme Court decision — Shelby County v. Holder — that threw out a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights…