Jackson Jambalaya

So Adams and Reese is being paid $1000000 to represent JPS against the state?

That's one way to protect your biz!

I cannot wait to see the facts develop in this matter....

"Would the next illiterate recent graduate please take the stand?"

"Raise your right hand.....uhhh your other right hand"

Where oh where in my goddamn Calgon!

They make some good points... Should be an interesting case.

JPS moved with all deliberate speed to correct the problems...how ironic.

What about the 90 day rule when suing a state entity?

When they filed this lawsuit - and as I post this comment - the State Board of Education has taken no action. A commission (not even the commission that makes the final call) simply made a recommendation. There is no action to this point that was arbitrary and capricious. Isnt this premature?

They actually brag about buying entirely new buses with GPS pre-installed instead of just paying a geek from Best Buy to install GPS units under the dashboards of the old ones.

Tells you all you need to know about JPS . . .

If my math is correct, JPS didn't have eight days to respond - they had 18 months.

Pitt- I'm going to help you out here because I used to be just like you. I believed. This is what you're witnessing in a song:

http://youtu.be/N5-0uPJXPlI

2:37, this is not a tort claim act case.

That is without a doubt Dr. Fredderick Murray's signature. Who the hell hired this guy that doesn't make any attempt at a legible signature? Doctor's privilege? Unbelievable. No, it's absolutely believable!

Game over JPS. Headed to the Governor.

It appears that MDE should accept JPS argument to continue to work with JPS
In moving the district forward as opposed to a takeover. MDE was very unimpressive
In their JPS audit presentation while the JPS presentation by Dr. Murray and his staff
was extremely detailed as to progress being made at JPS under new board and school leadership. And
impressive that the newly elected Jackson Mayor and his highly qualified Sr staff have
are assisting JPS.

so if this goes through who all would lose their job at JPS? just the superintendent and the board goes away? or are there others?

4:23. thank you Dr. Murray for your commentary.

4:34 - look at the person who commented right before you, at 4:23. They are one person that will lose his/her job. Anybody that thinks that JPS did a good job making their presentation, and that MDE didn't, is (1) either an administration employee of JPS - who will be losing their job; (2) a contractor or other hired professional - possibly A&R attorney? - who will be losing their gravy train; or (3) Orthor Cain or one of his lackeys who think this whole effort is a racist attempt by whitey to take something from Jackson and its wonderful black leadership - who will be losing their attachment to the gravy train.

A more complete answer to your question is: The Superintendent; any administrative office employee except ones that might be rehired; and other employees, staff, or contractors who are not performing in their position

Actually Dr. Murray was vague at times and didn't address the 24 standards that were listed. He disagreed with some of them but for Callaway, he didn't really go through each one and show how it was wrong. For example, the buses running late. I would've been checking them every day since school started and had a report ready to present to committee. His disagreement with school safety didn't contain any actual evidence, just anecdotes.

What was disturbing yesterday was that JPS asked MDE to disallow the 100 pages of media reports that were included in the 700 page report. Um, ok. MDE shouldn't see stories of kids getting beat up or mothers bringing guns to school. Now disclaimer, there were about four pages from this website. Those four pages could have been ommitted. The media stories on school safety issues were pretty bad. Yet JPS didn't want to even acknowledge them.

PittP, I hope you don't stay up too long wanting to watch this interesting case where you think JPS makes some good points. Evidently, the Judge disagrees with you - saying that he has no jurisdiction. So with all those good points it wasn't enough to convince the Judge that they could be made in his courtroom.

Since MDE and all of you bleeding hearts, are so concerned about the education of all Mississippi children, allow them to just attend the local (A) school districts. Start with Madison and Rankin county but not Canton and Pisgah but Madison Central and Brandon High School. That will truly show JPS how it's done.

I am all for the takeover, JPS has been awful for too long. However, I believe that state took over Durant a few years ago and I noticed Durant's ACT scores are just as awful as JPS. I think the real problem is that we as a nation try to help folks too much. Before about 1964 at least most folks were trying to do right. As in working at some job somewhere and not having children out of wedlock. The safety net we furnish allows too many folks to not work and to make babies they cannot afford. Very few ever stop to think of the difference in earning say $350/wk working full time vs earning the same amount by working a few odd jobs and collecting forms of welfare. If you have children at home the difference is huge. One of the most important things parents can do for their children is set an example of how to get up every single day and work a full time job. Point is, state takeover is only going to help a little. The big problem is parents doing a bad job raising children. Long before they get to school children must know right from wrong, know to respect authority, to be honest, to work hard, all those things that we all know are right. This is parenting.

7:00 pm

That is a very interesting post. I sort of used to think that way....but ...I got older.

You think that money is more important than life?

You say one shouldn't have children if one cannot afford children.

Newsflash. There are people who live life and and work is an after thought. Life experiences are more to them than a car or even a house.

State and Federal programs are not incentives to out of wedlock kids. It is a safety net to make sure kids don't suffer. You want to withdraw money as a penalty to would be unemployed fornicators.....think about that.

If you think children will not be born to poor people if safety nets go away....you clearly have never read a single history book.

The solution is much more painful...because it involves you having to live near a black poor person....the horror!

Predictable move. Run to Hinds County Chancery Court. This is a joke.

Takeover 2.0

Airport- check
JPS- check
City Hall- coming to a theater soon

September 14, 2017 at 7:30 PM = Yaaawwwwnnnnn, SSSsssnooorrreeee, ZZZZZZzzzzz

Lawsuit is a waste of time. Any ruling in favor of JPS in the Chancery Court will be reversed, before the ink is dry on the order, by the Republican/Activist controlled Supreme Court.

noticed Dorsey Carson on tv advocating on behalf of JPS, citizens of Jackson as a parent of a child assume is still in JPS. Of course, that all changes after 3rd grade or so.

7:#0 As the Bible say we will always have poor people. And they will have children. Almost everyone is less poor at age 25 than at age 18. And has even more money at 30 than 25. The current problem is the unbelievable % that are born to unwed mothers, many of then too young. This may or may not be related to more government handouts. But the facts are clear. Around 70% of black children are born to unwed mothers. We will NEVER get a handle on crime, poverty, and related problems until we figure out how to stop these mostly young girls from having babies before they have a stable marriage. Again, it may have nothing to do with any government policies, but if you go back and look at how many unwed mothers were having children in 1940 or 1950 it is a small fraction of today's number. Apparently our churches are failing as well. If you ask yourself why JPS cannot have decent schools it has much more to do with unwed teenage girls having babies than with anything the education system does. Those children grow up to have problem much more then children from stable home do.

Well, when you reduce the failing grade to 60 and still can't get your students to pass, that says it all.

Listening to their arguments is almost as funny as the "concerned mom" in Alabama several years ago. When the school board cut the extracurricular football and bass-e-ball programs, she sued the school board. Her primary reasoning......if little Duantte couldn't play football, how was he going to get in the PRO's, so he could buy her a nice house and car!!!!!!!

this nonsense about kids going to "neighboring districts" can't happen. 1st, folks pay local ad val taxes for their schools. 2nd, you can't dump thousands of kids other districts w/o it impacting the native districts' own children on class size student:teacher , resources, etc. 3rd, how would you logistically and financially transport the kids?

Since it is clear that Jackson, its leadership, and most of its citizens don't want to do the right things with education, infrastructure, and public safety, can we just put up a gate along Lakeland and charge a toll to Hinds county residents that want to come into Rankin county?

7:18 PM, Dogwood would fail without Jackson patrons. Very few parents, wed or unwed, would choose to send their children to failing schools. Freedom to choose where to send your child and having the money follow the child would change the whole scenery in this sorry tale. As a Catholic parent who paid both city school tax and tuition to Catholic schools, I can tell you that Catholic schools do an excellent job with less money per student and the financial status of the parent is not the main factor. Discipline is the determining factor. No child, regardless of race or family situation, is allowed to disrupt or disrespect in Catholic schools. Put the ability to discipline back in public schools and you will see different outcomes. Put video tape in classrooms, in hallways, and on the buses. Stop putting fear of law suits ahead of education. Allow consequences for bad behavior. Most teachers I know would love to be able to teach but are hampered in their efforts by lack of support from administration. To me, it is a matter of returning to sanity or better yet, common sense in schools.
Some students have all the math they will ever absorb by the end of the 8th grade. Quit trying to put them all into the same size "shoe". Some should develop trades and others are college material. Their educational needs are very different.

Didn't those challenging the lawsuit just brag about the Day Care Centers recently put in these schools.....as a bullet point in their message that 'progress is being made'? OH WHOOP! Our scholarly girls are better able to concentrate on their studies now that they can bring their churrins to the school day care center and have them baby-sat.

Imagine a day care center for students' babies being in our schools in the 40s and 50s or even early 60s?

If we had junior high (or whatever its called now) and high schools that were sexually segregated, nobody would need a damned baby sitting service for students' churrins. But, when everybody over the age of 13 is concentrating on nothing but 'split tail', this is where it will wind up.

HELLO? Complaint Department? Shouldn't every thread involving Dorsey Carson be filed under the 'Bed Wetter' heading?