Mississippi Statistics
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MCPP News & Reports
Leading Toward Liberty
Mississippi Center for Public Policy’s Leading Toward Liberty campaign is designed to return our state government to its proper role - to guard the liberty of its people....
2012 Legislative Session - Education Bills Recap
As far as education policy goes, the low point of the 2012 session was the failure of charter school legislation in the House. In addition to charters, legislators introduced several other bills that would have expanded educational freedom in Mississippi....
Charter Schools and Great News
I have some great news, and some bad news.
First, the bad news. Charter school legislation is dead for this legislative session. Thousands of children will go another year without being able to escape the schools that are failing to meet their needs....
Major Elements of HB 1152, The Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012
Major Elements of HB 1152, the Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012...
Press Release: Charter School Bill Fails in House Committee
The House Education Committee voted today to kill a charter school bill that would have brought public school choice to thousands of children across the state. After passing the Senate in February, the House Education Committee today defeated Senate Bill 2401 by...
Mississippi School and District Ratings
Mississippi school and district ratings, sorted by QDI Achievement Scores and by County....
MCPP Commentary
MCPP On The Radio
See the schedules for Vital Signs Commentaries by Forest Thigpen on radio stations throughout Mississippi....
Superintendents Can Have Their Own Charter Schools
One of the objections to charter school legislation I’m hearing more and more is that the regular school districts ought to be given the same freedoms that charter schools would have....
Financial Impact of Charter Schools
One of the concerns about charter schools is that the money will follow the child to the school....
Key Elements of Charter School Laws
Let’s get a few things straight about charter schools. First of all, there is no such thing as a private charter school. Charter schools are, by definition, public schools....
Charter School Opponents Promote the System, Ignore Children
A statistician says if you have one foot in a bucket of scalding water and the other in a bucket of ice, on average you’re pretty comfortable. That seems to be the attitude of the people who don’t want charter schools near so-called “successful” schools....
Are 'Successful' Districts Successful?
When a school district is rated Successful by the state, you might be tempted to think it’s doing well. But there are twelve districts in our state where at least half the schools are underperforming but the district is rated Successful....
MCPP snapshots
Policy Snapshots - May 9, 2011
The City That Privatized Everything
Judge's Demand for Homeschooler IDs Canceled
School District Rebuked for Keeping Children’s Records from Parents
Ten Thousand Commandments
Three Charts That Should Scare You...
Policy Snapshots - March 21, 2011
MCPP's Liberty Luncheon
Millions of Jobs at Stake with EPA Efforts to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
Feds Instruct Teachers to Facebook-Creep Students
Congress Needs Perspective on the $61 Billion Spending Cuts
Students Perform Better With Teachers Who Are Paid for...
