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June 10, 2015

MITCHELL: Drug testing welfare recipients hasn’t stopped the leeches

CHARLIE MITCHELL: Drug tests don’t deter Mississippi’s freeloaders Last year Mississippi lawmakers insisted it was essential to start drug-testing welfare applicants. “We must help them overcome their addictions,” was the altruistic reason. Almost a year passed. Oops. Guess how many people out of 5,578 applicants have been “helped.” Eight. And the “help,” of course, was…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 10, 2015

MS Dept. of Ed application for Special Needs Act questioned

Group criticizes MDE’s special ed voucher roll-out Empower Mississippi says MDE’s process for parents of special needs students to apply for public funds to pay for private schools and services is “extremely unfriendly to parents,” and doesn’t appear to follow the new law, passed by the Legislature this year. Senate Bill 2695, the Equal Opportunity…