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Columbus Students Commemorate Local Emancipation, Freedom Summer In Local Celebration
COLUMBUS, Miss.—The summer after his sophomore year at Amherst College in June 1964, Peter Norall joined the Freedom Summer efforts in Columbus, Miss., to...
Columbus Students Commemorate Local Emancipation, Freedom Summer In Local Celebration
COLUMBUS, Miss.—The summer after his sophomore year at Amherst College in June 1964, Peter Norall joined the Freedom Summer efforts in Columbus, Miss., to...
Reeves celebrates Medicaid expansion dying as Hosemann questions governor’s numbers
Mississippi lawmakers were unable to come to terms on a plan to expand Medicaid during the recently ended session, and Gov. Tate Reeves wasted no time celebrating what he believes to be a victory. In a lengthy social media post following Tuesday’s official sine die, the Republican governor who often...
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Report: Mississippi’s unemployment rate reaches new record low
Mississippi has experienced yet another record-low unemployment rate, Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Friday. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Mississippi’s unemployment rate reached 2.8% in April — the lowest percentage ever seen by the state. Reeves attributed gains the state has amassed in education and private investments...
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A solution to the Republican impasse on Medicaid expansion
Kathleen O’Beirne knocked loudly on Sen. Kevin Blackwell’s office door in the basement of the Mississippi State Capitol on Saturday morning.
O’Beirne, a Ridgeland resident...
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A solution to the Republican impasse on Medicaid expansion
Kathleen O’Beirne knocked loudly on Sen. Kevin Blackwell’s office door in the basement of the Mississippi State Capitol on Saturday morning.
O’Beirne, a Ridgeland resident...
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Lawmakers send new K-12 funding formula to Gov. Reeves
A new K-12 education funding formula is heading to the desk of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. In a surprise move on Friday, leaders in the House of Representatives worked with the Senate Education Committee to adopt their proposal to rid of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) and instead pass...
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Empower Mississippi Praises Passage of New Education Funding Formula
Today the Mississippi Senate and yesterday the Mississippi House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HB 4130, the “Mississippi Student Funding Formula”, that is based on...
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Lawmakers send MAEP education funding formula rewrite to governor
A new school funding formula has been approved by the Legislature that, like the long-standing Mississippi Adequate Education Program, will rely on an objective...
