Jackson Jambalaya

A pig in a poke.

"Unprecedented results" But he didn't say positive results.

The 'Mississippi Miracle' happened because of Barksdale Foundation money. The legislature is mainly just good ol' boys who are popular in their communities and have to think about how to pour piss out of a boot.

Conservative policy works best when the policymakers get their palms greased on the backend. Period! Mississippi needs to be the test case for term limits.

Please God no. Please.

Just say "no" to school choice.

Does anyone out there think there exists out there in the USA a stupider, less educated, more unqualified electorate than the great state of Mississippi. If you want to laugh, go watch those elected illiterates address the state houses. Texas has less than 100 legislators who only receive per diem payments. They generally elect qualified people and in a short period of time actually get work done in a timely manner.

Silly me, I thought the improvements were due to the hard work of teachers, admins. and students. Silly, silly , me. And again, nine out of the top ten states who have implemented school choice have seen continuous academic regression over the last 10 years. This is solid date provided by the only National Standardized test [ NAEP ] given to public school students in which all students take the same test across states. Mississippi is one of the few states that has steadily improved. But hey, lets ignore solid data and implement this garbage which has been factually proven to correlate with a decline in academic progress. The agenda is not to help students folks............

NO!! I haven't spoken to one person that wants this. He doesn't really care about what Mississippians want. He is all about kissing Trumps A33.

I simply cannot believe that any conservative would be for school choice. Let’s take good schools and water them down with terrible students who have sorry parent(s) that never show up. So stupid.

@1:23 The Mississippi Miracle happened because of Carey Wright. The lady that Philistine wanted to get rid of. The Barksdale Foundation was a waste.

This could ruin private schools

The freaks are coming out on this one and Michael Watson is out there posting everywhere that sending text messages telling everyone to call your Legislator is illegal unless you are a registered lobbyist! My kids are out of school already and private school was expensive, but this is a bad idea!

The teachers are giving him hell on the socials for legislators taking credit for the success instead of the teachers, and rightfully so.

…the apartments behind Community Bank Waterpointe…

Sounds like a logistical nightmare and issues with schools shutting down while others are overcrowded

The senate has always said their version of the bill won't be as sweeping, but it'll be interesting to see how much Delbert moves in hopes of gubernatorial success - aka hoping Trump won't give him the RINO label in a social media rant

As hard as it is, get serious, for a change, Kingfish. Who the hell is Brother Day?

Donkeycrat Delbert Hosemann says the status quo is perfectly acceptable as long as the solution includes more of the same.

I’m for anything that takes money away from the idiots running the public school system.

This is going to be another hot mess like “No Child Left Behind”. I’m a republican, but both are/were horrible ideas. Looks like we are trying to destroy both public and private education.

The Senate bill gives the receiving district the right to refuse a student, so hopefully anyone outside their district will be refused, effectively neutralizing it. The family should be responsible for transportation to and from another district if accepted.

From what I have seen, hardly anyone outside of being in politics wants this, or is outspoken about it as much as the Republican leaders. I'm a Republican, my kid is in private school, and I am embarrassed by what they are trying to ram down our throats. Tate Reeves, Jason White, Mike Hurst, and all the legislators pushing for it. Mark my words, they will all pay for this at the ballot box. Not to mention the all the teachers they have pissed off. Taking credit for the success of the schools over the teachers is a bad look.

That’s because we are not on the lobbyist dime. This is a heavily lobbied issue. Until we send some of the legislators to the house we won’t get charge. This may be the white middle class districts state flag. Hope they are ready to answer next year. Bought and paid for

I was for school choice until Tate decided to support it. If he supports it, we all know it is not in the best interest of the State.

This experiment has data.

What the naysayers crow about is complete utter emotional bullshit.

They know it because none of them have kids in schools now, nor were they proponents of a new way some fifteen years ago.

Proof is in the data, much of which has been published here.

If you have an emotional response, you can suck D’s nuts.

... the status quo is perfectly acceptable as long as the solution includes more of the same.

Perfect description of Hosemann. He's been talking this week, again, about eliminating boards and commissions. He's been freaking talking about doing that for 15 years or more. Will school choice work? Who knows but give me leaders who take a chance on actually trying to win -- leaders not content with the status quo (like PERS) -- versus what seems like Hosemann's only interest in playing out too many clocks.

I'm ALL against HB 2. $$'s to Home School?, $$'s to pay tuition for Private Schools?. Don't have the same checks & balances as Public Schools? Come of Ms House, this will be more crooked than Minn. Day Care-

I am totally Supporting Sen. Debars comments on Talk Radio this morning- He sounded based on Law, based on Facts-not just go-along to get along. Thanks Sen. Debar

Schools have a major, major impact on property values and development. Implementing school choice will affect all of that, and not just kids...