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Opinion  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
April 4, 2019

Teachers talk strike, protests despite pay raise

The legislative session ended with teachers receiving a pay raise of $1,500–a move that the Mississippi Association of Educators calls “pandering” and “insulting.” Now another group, Pay Raise for Mississippi Teachers is stoking the fire by calling for protests and strikes among teachers. The page admitted that while teachers agree that something must be done,…
Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 3, 2019

Improving public education – the top priority for Lt. Governor candidate Jay Hughes

Representative Jay Hughes, a Democrat representing Lafayette County, has now decided to run for Lieutenant Governor in the 2019 election cycle. He was originally elected to District 12’s House seat in 2015. “I took the alternative path. I was born into a poor family. My father was a rough neck in the oil field, my…