Jackson Jambalaya

Next year?

PepperoniPizzaTater shows his true colors.

How the fuck can you blame Tate? Twice his chamber passed the goddamned bill and twice the House managed to step on their own dicks.

@7 PM

Spoken like a true charter scholar.

You think Loome will be looming? I bet she is. The only difference now, there is a shining light on the reality of this game. I'm with Tate. It will be next year, my hopes are that between now and then there is meaningful discussion IN PUBLIC that corrects the situation described above.

The only thing the Confrence will produce is a weaker bill that will accomplish nothing. Much like the current law.

Tate is going on a mission these next 8 months until the next session, and those against this bill will only wish they would have taken this bill.

Phillip Gunn proved to be a failure!

I hope the supporters will use their time wisely and present a bill that doesn't need to be amended piecemeal.

I hope they will be able to describe to the public exactly who will be accountable for a charter school's finances and performance, what the minimum standards will be and how children will be selected to attend. And, I hope they choose one of the models most suited for our demographics.

But, I doubt it. That would require reading instead of being spoon fed snippets of information.

7pm, you should know by now that you have 1 or 2 people here who are going to post nonsense about Tate Reeves no matter what he does. If Tate came up with a cure for cancer, they'd bitch because it took so long. I think they're still upset that Tate beat the angry little coastal guy.

Any reasonable person knows the failure of charter schools is due to a failure in leadership by Speaker Disaster. He couldn't control members like Weathersby Family Underboss Tom Weathersby. Or, perhaps more likely, the Speaker was too busy cutting a deal with Weathersby to keep the DoR in their tool shed in Clinton.

Either way, the failure of charter schools is solely Speaker Disaster's fault.

And you are the voice of reason Curt?

Once again Speaker Gunn has proven he lacks the leadership qualities needed to be successful.

A simple solution to this problem is to go ahead and try to get legislative elections this year. A legislator or even a supervisor that ran last fall in an old district could request the 3 judge federal panel that still has jurisdiction over redistricting order such elections. If the request is successful, demographics and a Republican controlled redistricting plan will ensure a pick-up of at least three Republican seats and probably many more. Not only will that mean charter schools and other important legislation passes, along with strategic redistricting another set of elections will be appropriate punishment for those Republicans who did not go along with the conservative agenda.

Hahahahahahahaha! LMMFAo! ROTF! WOOOO-HOOOO!

C'mon Holland, don't you know there are quite a few apartment-dwelling sales and pre-mid management types here from the Counties that are political masterminds?! There is a veritable Redneck Rand Corp up in here! Respect!

8:35, Yes. Yes I am.

Fact is, general public couldn't care less about the Charter School situation or any bill associated with it. (no need to pile on and tell me WHY the public SHOULD give a rat's - Point is, they DON'T).

It's like ~ How many of us would care about a bill to repave all streets in Jackson. We might give it a glance and say, "Hmmm, that would be nice." Then we'd move on to thoughts that impact our lives on a daily basis.

Outside of the (few) districts of excellence (like Madison and DeSoto and very damned few others), the general public has no trust in public schools to rise above mediocrity and even less trust in government systems or 'government people' who would take a chisel to the process.

The solutions to EVERYTHING is CASINOS in downtown Jackson. Brings in money for everybody.