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April 1, 2015

SUN HERALD: Public hospital transparency bill a start, still needs work to air out corruption

SUN HERALD | Editorial: Hospital bill leaves a lot of work to do It’s a start’ is the weak praise the public hospital transparency bill deserves. “It’s not perfect,” some say and we agree. We would rather have had Sen. Brice Wiggins’ also imperfect original bill. But we would have preferred an even stronger bill.…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 1, 2015

State Sen. McDaniel calls anti-#CommonCore bill ‘smoke and mirrors’

Anti-Common Core bill goes to governor This bill means nothing,” said state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville. “It’s smoke and mirrors.” The measure severs ties with the national Common Core-aligned testing consortia, called PARCC, and creates the Mississippi Commission on College and Career Readiness whose members will study the state’s current K-12 education standards and determine…