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September 9, 2015

Third Grade Reading Gate scores show 8 percent of students will repeat third grade

Final reading test cuts number of failing third-graders More than 2,900 Mississippi students — 8 percent — are expected to repeat the third grade because they scored too low on the Third Grade Gate reading test. That’s an improvement from the 15 percent that failed the first time on the exam, a linchpin of Gov.…
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September 8, 2015

Patsy ‘Ma’ Brumfield squawks at cost of lawsuit her group paid to initiate, bless her heart #42

State hires Wallace to battle 42 On hiring Wallace and paying him more than $60,000 in state funds, Gunn said, “Remember, the Legislature was sued. We had to defend ourselves because the attorney general refused to defend us. We won at the Supreme Court level, so we were proven to be correct in defending ourselves…