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July 13, 2016

Parents Campaign starts to lower expectations for educational results for MS K-12 schools #msleg

School district ratings for 2015 are coming later this week. And it just got a whole lot harder to make a good grade. This is the first set of grades for schools under the new accountability model, with very different expectations, and the first using an online test (2015 PARCC). Both are likely to drive…
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July 13, 2016

@MSPolicy piles on criticism of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s suit to end charter schools in MS

Statement of Forest Thigpen on the Lawsuit to Kill Charter Schools in Mississippi Forest Thigpen, president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed yesterday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The suit alleges that charter school funding violates the Mississippi constitution, in part because the plaintiffs say…