You can bet that the lobbyists and fans of partisan gridlock are cheering, tinkling their glasses and grinning like a mule eating briars after the Mississippi Supreme Court gutted the
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By Kate Royals and Bobby Harrison
Apr 8, 2021 10:26 AM
Before Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann finished his post-legislative session press conference on April 1, education advocates and politicos rapidly fired off texts to one another and to reporters, opining about an assertion he made.
“This year education had its best year since, probably since William Winter,” Hosemann said early in the press conference.
Hosemann was harkening back to the 1982 session, when former Gov. William Winter ushered one of the state’s most transformative legislative education packages. It increased teacher pay, established public kindergarten and compulsory school attendance, and created a statewide testing program for performance-based accreditation of public schools.
Mississippi grieves the death of former Gov. William Winter
December 19, 2020 GMT
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, former Gov. William Winter speaks at the announcement of a $2.5 million donation to the Foundation for Mississippi History and will be used for exhibits in the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, both under construction in Jackson. Family spokesman Dick Molpus says Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, that Winter died Friday night at home in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, former Gov. William Winter speaks at the announcement of a $2.5 million donation to the Foundation for Mississippi History and will be used for exhibits in the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, both under construction in Jackson. Family spokesman Dick Molpus says Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, that Winter died Friday night at home in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)