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February 20, 2015

MS Ed Board’s Wayne Gann: “worst political environment for public ed in state since desegregation”

State to Study Separate District for Troubled Schools State to Study Separate District for Troubled Schools JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The State Board of Education is likely to study a new plan to create a separate statewide school district in Mississippi to take over troubled schools and school districts… …The board discussed the study Thursday…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 20, 2015

State Treasurer Fitch touts conservative state debt management at new USM Nursing School site

State treasurer supports USM Nursing after successful bond sale HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) – Mississippi’s Treasurer closed a successful bond sale last week that saved the state $36 million and contributed $20 million to the University of Southern Mississippi’s Nursing School construction project. “Health care is vitally important,” said state Treasurer Lynn Fitch Thursday on a…