Last year, the people of Mississippi had a chance to increase the funding for their woefully inadequate public schools, and the legislature and governor did everything in their power to reject the proposal, even creating an alternative measure designed to confuse voters. Act 42, which would have compelled equitable funding was voted down. Act 42 failed to win approval. Here is the background.
The legislature’s answer to school improvement: charter schools. These are the schools of choice that segregationists have wanted since the Brown decision.
Some in the legislature want to take the next step and authorize vouchers, to thoroughly undermine public schools.
The first two charters in Jackson are finishing their first year: one is struggling, the other is part of a corporate chain and is off to a good start.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Weird how “the agnostics” in the ed reform movement never do any lobbying for public schools.
Thousands of paid ed reform lobbyists, no advocacy for public schools.
Never. What are the odds that no public school issue anywhere in the country merits their support?
“Agnostic” my foot. They lobby for charters and vouchers, period. I don’t know why they can’t just be straight about it.
They thought we wouldn’t notice that a “movement” that is supposedly “about” public education omits public schools?
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I’ve often thought that if the teachers’ unions truly wished to change school reformer power, they’d simply need to change public perception by hitting the media hard with an ongoing, intentional advertising about how WELL many public schools are doing; all inclusive; all public, all positive, all the time.
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