Jackson, MS – Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable release a table and map showing the data that the Governor’s Commission on Educational Structure (“School Consolidation”) would not…
Jackson, MS – At the end of the first week of August 2009 six younger and older members of the Echo census and redistricting team completed an intensive hands-on 3-week…
This is the 3rd week of Southern Echo’s 3-week GIS mapping and redistricting training for 8 members of Echo’s Census & Redistricting Team to prepare them to train others in Mississippi, southern and southwestern states in 2010 in anticipation of the 2011 redistricting process.
Southern Echo will provide 3 weeks of GIS mapping and redistricting training for 8 members of Echo’s Census & Redistricting Team to prepare them to train others in Mississippi, southern and southwestern states in 2010 in anticipation of the 2011 redistricting process.
Jackson, MS, Nov. 18, 2008 — At the end of October 2008 MS Governor Haley Barbour demanded that the MS Dept. of Education cut 2 percent from the current state appropriation for local school district funds, along with every other state agency, to address the revenue shortfall caused by the economic recession.
State Supt. of Education Hank Bounds vigorously opposed the cuts and shot back that a 2 percent cut in the middle of this fiscal year would force at least 20 local school districts into the “red” in violation of the state law prohibition against school districts operating with a budget deficit. Bounds was supported in his opposition to the cuts by the Lt. Governor, the Chairs of the House and Senate Education Committees, members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, numerous parent and student organizations both black and white, local school district leaders and business organizations. (more…)
