Jackson Jambalaya

um ... why is thus "news"?

Damn if they haven't gone and one upped Harvey Johnson with a document that says nothing proposing to deliver something undefined without funding! Maybe they can take on Farish Street next!!!

I have more confidence in nuclear fusion as a viable, limitless source of clean energy than I do in the success of anything coming from this MOU. I wonder what the other Mississippi school districts who have been or will be taken over think of this? I feel more court action coming on that front...

Did Ben Allen sign on to this plan? If not, we need to back up and start over! Loft Apartments depend on the success of our education footprint.

@6:58 the takeover process is effectively dead. Bryant has been duped and now students in failing districts statewide will be sacrificed to their fate. Further district consolidations are also DOA.

Yall lost and we won. You mad bro?

Justice Troll: not mad but sad "bro". Sad that Phillbilly "Ray Guy" Bryant fell for the SJW's story which is just a ruse to protect central office jobs. Do you think that MOU is going to right size JPS by cutting hundreds of administrative jobs and consolidating schools? Mayor Free the Land fired Yarber the Mad Paddler's School Board so he could put in people loyal to him only. Sad for the kids that have to wait out the one year to study the problem. At least MDE had a plan that started on Day 1 "bro". Sad that we'll have to wait 2 years and leave it up to Governor Hood to sign the emergency declaration.

Not true. Yarber's appointees but for one resigned from the board earlier this year.

I watched the City Council discussion the other night on this topic. Mayor said flat out that JPS needed to cut things and although it would be painful, it needed to be done. He cited Desoto and the fact it has 6500 more students and fewer schools. They also discussed JPS being top heavy and that the national average of teachers/total number of employees was 60%. They said JPS needed to get to that standard and it wouldn't be painful.

Look, one thing that is good about this third way is a Mayor trying to get involved with JPS. He can reduce the crime and repave the streets but all that will be for naught if the schools are not fixed. Shiny new streets don't mean as much when your choice is to send your children to an F or D school or spend five figures on a private school each year.

Past Mayors ignored education as they appointed and forgot. Don't slam him for trying to lead. Of course, if he screws up, we can always criticize him. That is part of leadership too. ;-)

KF: Strong points. I hate to sound cynical because if all this helps JPS kids, then that is what matters but realistically that could all just be appeasement talk for the Governor. The Mayor has said they would study the problem for a year (that sounds familiar--I'm looking at you Legislature). Is the Mayor really going to put 1,000 citizens out of work? Will all the hard work/decisions be put off until and contingent upon the results of this Kellogg study? At least the Ed Dept was ready to clean house and do the hard work immediately. Sorry JPS Class of 2018 and 2019.

The only losers are the children. They are used to it by now. They have not mattered in many years and this is just the latest proof that nothing is going to change.
Other cities have law enforcement to protect them from the children no one cares about.
Jackson has learned to live with them, or those who survive.

Give the mayor a chance to get involved and fix it. Meanwhile, Gov Bryant and state leadership have some cleaning up to do at MDE. Plenty of corruption and inefficiencies with that organization.

Kingfish you seem to be indirectly giving the Mayor an executive power that does not exist. Beyond board nominations he has no control over JPS. None. The school board is never going to make any sort of painful right-sizing cuts. Never. So it is politically expedient for Lumumba to say all the right things now just as it will be easy for him to politically blame the board when the dirty work goes undone.

Not disagreeing with you one bit. Time will tell.

The mayor may be radical, but WOKE he's not!

The only people duped in this entire
situation are the students of JPS. If the radical mayor thinks for ten hot seconds that the conservative governor gives two sneezes about the success of black and brown children, then I have swampland for sale in D.C./Russia!

The conservative governor's foremost concerns were those boisterously expressed by Hawkins(Madison SD), Fisher(Clinton SD) and Windham (Pearl SD). If the state took over JPS, those failing black and brown students could matriculate to not only better districts, but the best districts MS has to offer, white, 'A' rated systems?!

If Lumumba remains radically obtuse to Bryant's overt M.A.G.A speciousness,
Jackson SD will lanquish in inequity, ignominy and inadequacy for years to come!

#JSUHomecoming17

@9:23pm/I agree that keeping JPS students out of adjoining districts was likely a part of the Gov's thinking but you got to slow your roll on the whitey charge. Clinton is 53% black, Madison is 40% (above state avg) and I guess I will give you Rankin which is 26%. All A or B districts. Black does not equal bad and white does not equal good.

When the public schools were intergrated in Jackson children were bussed from one side of town to the other. To solve the problem now because of white flight, let's bus children from Jackson to Madison & Madison to Jackson. I'm sure Mayor Hawkins would help all the children.