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...

Yes 8:54 you live in Jackson, MS and I don’t think folks want a new house in NE Jax these days.

There is also a great deal of data on gambling and addiction. Don’t act like this is all drive by data. White and Crew have 2 issues. More gambling and school choice…just happens to be a lot of money pushing both issues

The data is bogus pal. I work in the system. Damn lies, and statisitics. Public money (the people's money) is being used to slather largesse on elected representatives' friends and families. Mississippi in a nutshell until the people wake up and stop electing the same dirt dumb idiots.

Mississippi in a nutshell until the people wake up and stop electing the same dirt dumb idiots.

And what? Elect some dirt dumber Democrats instead? We're not trying to climb out of 50th on too many lists because of a long legacy of Republican politics in Mississippi. Just maybe we need to get you out of the system. Get smarter.

They can't give 'em away.

Let me guess, Democrat policy is soooo much better…in case you missed it, there is massive fraud coming out of Democrat cities. I believe we are talking Billions in fraud. But I suppose that is just fine, Conservatives are the problem, right?

Who, outside of lobbyist dollar recipients, actually wants this crap?

11:34 pm St. Andrews and Jackson Academy are in NE Jackson and Prep is minutes away in Flowood. Our children either get their own cars when they are old enough to drive or our "stay at home moms" carpool.
Even with school choice, they won't take your child if you can't pay the tuition unless he or she has a very high IQ and is socially well adjusted or is a well adjusted ,disciplined athlete who will likely play at the college level.
They will still be PRIVATE SCHOOLS and don't have to accept your child unless he or she meets their entrance requirements and they see the parents as being " acceptable".
Your only benefit is driving your child to a better public school until he or she can drive themselves.
We aren't moving The Jackson Country Club or River Hills or state government or the universities or the hospitals or the convenience the wealthy enjoy in Jackson.
You really don't understand that you fools will be allowing tax dollars to be diverted to private schools. Some of us NE Jackson people are fine with you doing that as long as you are aware. The rest are happy for your donations to our private schools and do hope you have an exceptionally talented child who can make the "cut".
8:54 am We don't have many homes for sell in our exclusive neighborhoods and the "middle class" homes are where some of our children " start out" until they can afford CCJ, Eastover, Fondren or LOHO. The wealthy know race and "class" aren't the same and "class" isn't always about money but whether or not you were raised to be well mannered and able to control your behavior.

Should be required in this bill that every legislator and elected statewide executive branch from now till the end of time send their kids to public schools, no exceptions, that would end this insanity.

Isn't it convenient that the group that this will affect the most, teachers, are all in school and can't show up to the Capitol to protest this.

The Mississippi Center for Public Policy also sold out—handing the mic to Doug Carswell, a UK political import who bailed when his own country unraveled and now shows up here to lecture Americans on governance. Putin is about to nuke the UK off the map. Boy, I'll have me some more of that !!

Supercuck 97.3 should be ashamed of the state-sponsored nonsense they broadcast. The late, great JT & Dave used to hold grifting superintendents accountable, calling out their bloated salaries while teachers were left with scraps.

"Will school choice work? Who knows but give me leaders who take a chance on actually trying to win --"

Well, now there's a really thoughtful suggestion. Let's roll the dice on another social experiment with our children as guinea pigs.

Take a look at our experiment in about four years, and, if outcomes are not sufficiently positive, retool the program or can it altogether. We risk nothing but the lives of the guinea pigs.

@11:00am - That’s the thing though, we don’t need to experiment. Other states have done this and have been, for the most part, a massive failure for the students (except private school kids, i.e. the ones that this will ultimately benefit). We only need to look at them.

This will start off slowly, targeted at the “underprivileged” to Mae it seems like it isn’t a handout to private schools. Then they will expand it in future sessions so that their targeted audience gets it down the road. It’s wildly unpopular, so they’re reframing it to make it more palatable this time around. They will add to it each year.

Vote these assholes out.

Wilkinson County schools have been taken over by the state. I guess no students will be importing themselves there. It’s still too bad that spineless Phil didn’t take over JPS.

I'm sorta uncomfortable in that I have not heard from ONE school administrator, principal, teacher, sub teacher or school board member supporting this experiment.

Come to think of it, I've not heard a parent or student in support either.

Where does that leave the non-profits and Supertalk? Is Kingfish screening out their comments?

Public schools are an absolute joke, they are far left indoctrination institutions now. The so called teachers as more interested in social justice and promoting socialism than educating children in math, English and accurate history. It makes me sick how much of my property taxes go toward teaching kids to hate their own country.

@7:12pm is proof that education doesn’t always work.

Ultimately School Choice is a check on government power, akin to the 2nd Amendment, that doesn't necessarily have to be used to have a deterrent effect. Both have a large support amongst minorities that have been on the losing end of abuse. If we have Biden-Obama 2.0, and the Federal government yet again tries to force people to ascent to lies about basic biology, parents can cobble together a solution to educate their children without breaking the budget. Yes, the solution might start out in a used metal building, but at least there would be options.

In FL and AZ where School Choice has been going for a while the local districts are now offering multiple styles of "specialized schools—including a Spanish immersion program, an arts-focused school, and a “traditional academy” with uniforms—that enable “families to choose the type of education that is right for their child,”" as a competitive response to try to keep parents choosing to keep their children and dollars flowing to the public school district with one of the ideas to "mimic restaurant-industry focus on customer service". See: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-school-choice-vouchers-d1fbf87d?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1 

7:12 is absolutely correct you Communist.

I thought the lottery and casino gambling was supposed to fix all educational woes.

This is total bullshit and nobody wants it.

Follow the money. No kid will get any smarter and outcomes will be the same. All it will do is drag down performing schools and students.

Nobody wants your disruptive, undisciplined, violent Johnny in their schools.

Tons of misinformation out there.

Current law: allows kid attending the public school closest to where he lives to move to a nearby public school, with both schools agreeing to the transfer.

Proposed change: remove the sending school’s veto power. Receiving school would still have to agree to transfer.

Proposed change: charter school eligibility would be opened to any school district containing a D or F rated school. Receiving school would still have to agree to transfer.

Educating Savings Accounts (ESAs) are in current law (money follows the student) for any kid with special needs and scholarships for dyslexic students and ones with speech therapy needs.

Proposed change has over 6,000 scholarships allotted to current students, less than 1.5 percent of current K-12 public enrollment.

This seems reasonable. How come nobody is talking about the actual current law and the actual proposed changes?