Today is Election Day, and as public school supporters, we owe it to our children to vote! In addition to electing a president and other important officeholders, voters in more than 50 Mississippi school districts will have school board candidates on their ballots. We asked them to tell us their opinions on important education issues, and you […]
If you plan to vote absentee in this election, please be aware that noon this Saturday is the deadline to do so in person. Registered voters who are age 65 or older or who won’t be able to get to the polls next Tuesday can vote absentee at their Circuit Clerk’s office. Circuit Clerks’ offices
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Election Day is right around the corner, and it is important for public school supporters to cast their votes every time the polls are open! If you are age 65 or older or won’t be able to get to your polling place on November 5, you can vote absentee at your Circuit Clerk’s office. Circuit
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Next month, voters will elect school board members in more than 50 school districts, almost half of which have contested elections. We need your help to spread the word about where the candidates stand on important public education issues! Candidates for school boards were sent our School Board Candidate Q&A questionnaire, asking their positions on
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As staunch supporters of public education, and as adults in a representative democracy, we have an obligation to do our part to elect public officials at every level of government who are committed to supporting and protecting our public schools. To do that, we must be registered to vote, and we must make it a
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As a public education advocacy network with members in every Mississippi school district, we want to help school board candidates on the November 5 ballot let voters know of their candidacy for school board and their positions on important education issues. Share this announcement and invite school board candidates in your district to participate in
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Wow! What Mississippi’s public school teachers and leaders are doing for our state is remarkable. School and district accountability ratings are out, and they are impressive! See your school and district ratings here. There are more A-rated schools (294) and school districts (54) than there are schools and districts with any other letter grade –
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Voucher pushers can’t seem to get their story straight. It began decades ago when the first wave of state-funded private school vouchers came in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education that public schools must integrate. Segregationists made no bones about the fact that “tuition grants” (vouchers) provided
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Mississippi’s public school students and teachers have reached record-setting levels of achievement – again! State student assessment results are in, and they show that Mississippi students are continuing to increase their proficiency rates in English Language Arts, math, and science. Hats off to our terrific public school teachers, students, and parents and the communities that
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Voucher pushers want you to believe that diverting state funds to private schools will create choices for children who don’t currently have them. The data tell us otherwise. In state after state that has implemented voucher programs, the result has been the same: overwhelmingly, vouchers have gone to parents who already were sending their children to
Do school vouchers & tax credits deliver the promised choice? They don’t. Read More »
