Jackson Jambalaya

The refinancing gives a Christmas present to the legal crowd feeding at the district trough...black elites from the Ditto era (Turner) and white elites from the Winter era (Begley). The over-paid administrators from the current regime already have their reward.

I doubt when Wee Willie "Mo' Money" Winter talks about the need to increase spending on education that he takes into account this sudden incremental long term bump.

Jackson is following the same path as Detroit.

Clarion-Ledger had a bunch of stories today on ed reform. All of it pretty much said "mo money mo money mo money". Not one mention about how much money districts waste or how they spend it.

One of the callers touted elections of school administrators as a school reform. The local school system is controlled increasingly by federal courts, rule-making, mandates, and state law. The risk of patronage on the local level might to tolerable if parents and citizens had more of a say in school leadership outside the voucher and choice reforms. I concur with your caller on the election of leaders and boards.

The election of supts and boards in Hinds (and many other) county would forever ensure that no white representation could be had. Not sure appointments would be any different, but we're talking here about elections. Do we really want what the electorate gives us (see Stokes fambly) or would appointments be better?

The one upside about direct elections is that it would provide the black community more opportunities to elect sworn police officer impersonators to school boards in various parts of the state.

"We will replace $27 million with $41 million in debt."

Not sure what to say at this point. I'm still staring at that one sentence.

By now it is obvious what the plan is with JPS, the City of Jackson and HindsCo. All will load up on bond debt to the hilt and then seek protection via bankruptcy. There is no real plan to pay it back -- and the refinancing will eventually end also -- because the population and tax base will not return to those shitholes. The tax base is cratering, Jackson's especially, so the time to max out the load is now (to what will soon be unsustainable levels) before the bond markets realize that not enough base remains to service the debt. AND YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST DOLLAR that the Malachi pimps are going to keep those three whores busy, busy, busy until the bond johns all come down with default clap.