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February 16, 2009

State monitors JPS board meetings

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/16/9 The state Department of Education is monitoring Jackson Public Schools’ board meetings in response to complaints from school district employees and the community. State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds’ office received numerous phone calls from JPS employees, “parents and other citizens about the length of the board meetings and how the board…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 16, 2009

Medicaid: Still needs long-term solution

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 2/16/9 While there have been some encouraging signs on both sides of the political spectrum in Mississippi over Medicaid funding, the fact remains that the Legislature has yet to provide stable funding for the program that provides public health care to the poor, the blind and disabled and children. More than six…