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July 18, 2016

PENDER: Comprehensive look at state budgeting “probably long overdue”

GEOFF PENDER: How we gonna run ree-form when we’re the d–n incumbent? There hasn’t been a Democratic-led spending or taxing measure passed in the Mississippi Legislature in a long time. There have been 44 Republican-led tax cuts passed in the last five years that now apparently will be studied for their efficacy and effect on…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 18, 2016

Mississippi NAACP supports SPLC lawsuit against charter schools

Charter schools debate furious as ever Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit July 11 seeking to close the existing charter schools and prevent any more from opening. On behalf of seven JPS parents, the suit argues that charter schools violate the state constitution by making school districts share property tax collections with schools they don’t…