In the 2016-2017 school year, 425 vouchers were available for children with special needs (under the Education Scholarship Account or ESA program). A second lottery was held in January 2017 to distribute 134 vouchers that had become available since the beginning of the school year, indicating that almost one-third of the vouchers originally available were […]
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State leaders are congratulating themselves for a recently announced national education award, which hails Mississippi for Governor Bryant’s 2013 “transformational education reform package,” citing charter schools, the A-F rating system, and literacy initiatives as markers for success. The award is given by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), of which Governor Bryant is a
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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a corporate bill mill that is funded by large for-profit corporations that seek to profit from taxpayer dollars. Education funding is one of ALEC’s favorite targets. The wealthy corporate execs that run ALEC court state legislators to join their group. They donate to political campaigns and treat these elected
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