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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 2, 2019

Mississippi awarded $10.6 million in early childhood development federal grant

Mississippi was awarded $10.6 million for the “Connected for Success: A Family-Based Unified and Integrated Early Childhood” federal grant. This is the first time Mississippi has ever received federal funds for educational investments towards ages 0-5 and not children ages 4 to 5 already enrolled in pre-k classes. This is the third year Mississippi has applied…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 2, 2019

SALTER: Mississippi’s congressional clout will be tested, realigned in the 116th Congress

By: Sid Slater During the 2018 federal election cycle, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other national news organizations examined the question of what they saw as Mississippi’s declining clout on Capitol Hill. Clearly, the 2018 retirement of 45-year veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran – who held the vastly influential post of…