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September 25, 2017

Gov. Bryant waiting til late October to decide JPS takeover

Governor says he will wait another month before deciding on JPS takeover JACKSON, Miss (AP) – Governor Phil Bryant says he’s going to wait another month before he decides whether to approve a state takeover of the Jackson school district. He told Supertalk Mississippi on Thursday that he’ll wait until the state Department of Education…
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September 22, 2017

KINGFISH shock stat – Only 38% of JPS personnel are teachers #msleg

How bloated is JPS? How bloated is the JPS payroll? Compare the workforce of JPS and Desoto County. Desoto is the largest school district in Mississippi with 6,589 students more than JPS.* However, JPS has nearly a thousand more employees and a much smaller share of JPS’s employees are teachers. See how bad the numbers…