Mississippi Business Journal » Cecil Brown http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Search is on for next Department of Revenue headquarters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/search-is-on-for-next-department-of-revenue-headquarters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=search-is-on-for-next-department-of-revenue-headquarters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/search-is-on-for-next-department-of-revenue-headquarters/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:01:36 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=55682 The leadership of the Mississippi House of Representatives last week rebuffed a late-inning effort to salvage a move of the Mississippi Department of Revenue into downtown Jackson’s Landmark Center. House leaders are said to have no appetite for dealing with the DOR headquarters issue this year. State Sen. John Horhn tried to resurrect DOR headquarters’ [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/26/budget-budget-budget/feed/ 0 Study: More expense on classroom instruction = better student education http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/05/study-more-expense-on-classroom-instruction-better-student-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-more-expense-on-classroom-instruction-better-student-education http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/05/study-more-expense-on-classroom-instruction-better-student-education/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:00:41 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=34155 Mississippi can’t do anything about poverty overnight, but it could require accountability for current education expenditures The high poverty rate among Mississippi public school students significantly and negatively impacts student achievement, a Stennis Institute study shows. That’s no surprise. But the study also produces numbers showing that Mississippi public school districts that spend higher percentages of their [...]

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