It’s been over 30 years since former Mississippi Gov. William Winter passed the Mississippi Education Reform Act. This act overhauled public education, namely publicly funding education and establishing compulsory school attendance law. At the time, Mississippi ranked last in education as well as in many other social and economic categories. Fast forward to present day...
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The Mississippi House of Representatives passed House Bill 369, also known as the Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013, on Jan. 24. This bill both defines and makes space available within the pre-existing public school system for charter schools. The House Education Committee passed the bill with a vote of 16 to 14. The House also passed the bill with a vote of 64 to...
For lawmakers, Jan. 1, 2014, is a monumental date looming in the ever-nearing future. That date is when the majority of the measures under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as many Mississippians refer to it, will take effect. Among other things, this date marks the deadline for state lawmakers to come up with their own health insurance exchange programs and have them...
File Photo (Jared Burleson/The Daily Mississippian)Governor Phil Bryant Gov. Phil Bryant declared 2013 the year to hire veterans, and in conjunction, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and Workforce Investment Network job centers are assisting an estimated 28,000 Mississippi veterans to return to civilian life and regular employment. Mississippi Gov....
In 1962, U.S. Marshals were ordered to go to The Univer- sity of Mississippi to escort James Meredith so he could enroll in classes. Five of those marshals returned to the Ole Miss Student Union Monday morning to speak about their experience on campus during the 1962 integration. People filled the ballroom in the Union to hear the panel of five former U.S. Marshals and...
Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1390 yesterday, requiring all physicians performing abortions in Mississippi to be board-certifiied obstetrician-gynecologists and to have admitting priviliges at an area hospital. "Today you see the first step in a movement, I believe, to do what we campaigned on- to say we're going to try to end abortion in Mississippi,"...
