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News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
December 27, 2018

Legislative PEER Committee Releases Report on Mississippi’s Charter Schools and Authorizer Board

The Legislative PEER Committee is releasing its report titled FY 2018 Annual Report: Analysis of Funding for Mississippi Charter Schools and the Charter School Authorizer Board. Some of the Committee’s major findings include: The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) distributed the same amount of per pupil Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) funding to Midtown Public, Reimagine…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 27, 2018

Thompson makes statement on second child death at the border

Wednesday, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the death of Felipe Alonzo-Gomez.  This is the second death this month of a child in the federal government’s care at the border: “While the Department of Homeland Security is scrambling to adhere to the Trump…