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Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charter schools. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

What To Expect: A New Year, Same Tired Republican Excuses

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This is Part 2 of a series this week highlighting what to expect from the Mississippi Legislature this session. If the very calculated an...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

In light of the unmasking of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, a look back in time...

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Yesterday, when the Center for Media and Democracy released their report showing the Mississippi Center for Public Policy (MCPP) to be funde...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The House roll call vote on the final charter schools bill

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The Mississippi Press has the roll call vote on the charter schools bill in the House on their site .  The Democrats voting for the bill wer...

Wading back in; a wrap up of what I've missed covering

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I'm back in the office a bit today, and here's a round up of the stories that I've missed while out: - When the history of thi...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A thought on the education proposals in Gov. Bryant's State of the State

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It is interesting that Gov. Bryant is asking for legislation raising the requirements for education majors, yet his party supports charter s...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The House charter schools bill has passed the Education Committee

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This morning, the House charter schools bill passed the Education Committee, and heads to the floor for a vote.  As mentioned before, there ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Sam Hall digs deep and compares the House and Senate charter schools bills

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Sam Hall did the heavy lifting today and has a comparison of the House and Senate charter schools bills on his blog.  Y'all head on ove...

Charter Schools: No vote today in House Ed Committee; next chance for vote is 9 a.m.

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Word out of the Capitol is that the House Education Committee did not take up Rep. John Moore's charter schools bill.  The next opportun...

Mississippi's former State Superintendent of Education makes strong case against charter schools

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I can't add much to this.  Read it, share it, write and call your representatives. Dr. Richard Boyd on the failure of charter schools ...

House Republican leadership will attempt to ram through charter schools bill today

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I've received word from the Capitol that House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Moore (R - Brandon) has sent text messages to memb...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Gov. Phil Bryant: I haven't figured out how people make money off charter schools

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a single quote is worth a political career of them. Emily Wagster Pettus had a long sit ...
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Nancy Loome of Parents Campaign exposes profiteering of charter schools

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Nancy Loome of the Parents' Campaign penned an article for today's Clarion-Ledger that exposes one of the big problems with the ch...

C-L Editorial: Charter schools not the solution

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I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  Now it's back to the grind. With the 2013 Legislative session looming, there's ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

***BREAKING - CHARTER SCHOOLS BILL HEADED TO CONFERENCE***

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The Mississippi House has voted this afternoon to send the charter schools legislation to conference committee.
Friday, April 13, 2012

Classic Marshall Ramsey cartoon ties together last couple of Cottonmouth posts

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The old saw is that a picture is worth a thousand words.  Well, Marshall Ramsey's cartoons are often worth so much more.  The last two ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Charter schools bill not brought up in House; signal that Republican leadership does not have the votes

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The new charter schools language inserted into HB 1152 by Sen. Gray Tollison (R - Oxford) sits on the House calendar for a vote on concurr...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Republican leadership: "Vote for charter schools or lose your district"

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During last year's redistricting battle, Governor Bryant and other Republicans admonished legislators that the "gentleman's agr...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

How do we explain the different eyewitness accounts of the alleged incident yesterday at the Capitol?

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There's been quite a bit of talk today surrounding what happened or did not happen with the alleged shoving of Rep. Reecy Dickson (D - M...

Audio of Rep. Chuck Espy (D - Clarksdale) on floor speaking about alleged shoving of Rep. Reecy Dickson (D - Macon)

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Rep. Chuck Espy (D - Clarksdale) addressing House concerning alleged shoving of Rep. Reecy Dickson (D - Macon) The HOME website has the ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Photo of State Capitol Police investigating possible assault of Rep. Reecy Dickson

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The above photo purportedly shows State Capitol Police investigating reports that Rep. Reecy Dickson (D - Macon) was assaulted after the ...