Shock and Awe over Latest Legislative Budget Ideas and Spending Priorities
JACKSON, Miss. – Eliminating more than 2,000 empty state jobs, reducing travel and services by contacts; plus limiting the purchase of new equipment are among...
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The Way Public Schools Are Funded: Pickering Blasts MAEP in Report to Legislature
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JACKSON, Miss.–The Mississippi Adequate Education Program has been the subject of a lot of controversy lately, with a lawsuit filed by former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove...
Fully Funding Education: State Auditor Says MAEP Formula Difficult to Understand
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JACKSON, Miss.–Fully funding education, that would seem like a no-brainer, right? In Mississippi most school superintendents see that as fully funding the Miss. Adequate Education...
Your Child’s Education: Musgrove to Hold Press Conferences on MAEP Lawsuit
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JACKSON, Miss.–Two press conferences are set for today by Mississippi’s former governor, Ronnie Musgrove, to discuss a lawsuit that he has been gearing up to...
Suing the State Over Education Funding: Winter Says No, Supports Amendment
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.–You may have heard about a lawsuit being prepared against the state by former governor Ronnie Musgrove and a group of lawyers, which would...
Sen. Hob Bryan: Money for MAEP Will Ultimately Not Come From Mediciad
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JACKSON, Miss.–Despite assertions by state Republicans in the Senate, the extra $60 million that was pulled from the Medicaid budget will not ultimately come from...