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March 13, 2017

AMY: EmpowerMS has goal of 50,000 students educated outside traditional public school by 2025

School choice in Miss.: Many fights, few students so far Not so much. Between the state’s three charter schools and two programs that pay for children with learning disabilities to attend private schools, fewer than 1,000 students are being served this year. There are 482,000 students in traditional public schools, by contrast. Though supporters have…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 13, 2017

CRAWFORD offers Thomasville, Alabama as example of rural community doing well

BILL CRAWFORD: Day shows rural towns can succeed Thomasville, a small town in Alabama’s poor “Black Belt,” has thrived under the leadership of Mayor Sheldon Day. Indeed, Day has his folks believing it is “cool to be rural.” Census data shows Thomasville with 4,209 residents and a low family poverty rate of 13 percent compared…