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October 16, 2018

Dark money play for Chris McDaniel PAC after FEC reporting deadline

Nine minutes after the Remember Mississippi PAC filed their October quarterly filing with the FEC last night showing that the PAC was essentially on vapors with only $23,000 cash on hand, the PAC then filed an independent expenditure for an additional $271,000 of media buys for the PAC.  This obviously far exceeded the cash on…
News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
October 16, 2018

Nine Elementary Schools Improve Literacy Skills, Transition from State Literacy Support

Nine elementary schools where the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) deployed literacy coaches to help teachers become more effective teachers of reading have achieved sustained academic improvements and no longer need coaching support. Mississippi’s Literacy-Based Promotion Act of 2013 established the literacy coach program, which assigns coaches to schools in which 3rd grade students have the…