The first thing that Democrat Jamie Franks and Republicans Phil Bryant and
Charlie Ross want you to know is that they love children. They love education. They think teaching kids well and letting them lead the way is good. They also agree that Hurricane Katrina was the worst natural disaster to hit this country. They all want top phase out elected superintendents and raise qualifications for school board members.
Franks made a point of seperating himself from the GOP contenders. If he's chosen in November to lead the state Senate, he won't just take every plan that Gov. Haley Barbour presents and push it through, he says. He also made it clear that Appropriations Chairman Jack Gordon wouldn't return as chair under his watch. Gordon, though a Democrat, has sided with Republicans and helped block the "full funding" of MAEP, the almighty school funding formula.
It is only Franks who promises to actually change things so that MAEP can get through in a non-election year.
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