Thursday, January 24, 2013

Charter school bill passes House

They stayed at it until after Midnight BUT a charter school bill passed the House by ten votes this morning.

Speaker Phillip Gunn issued the following press release:

Speaker of the House Philip Gunn and members of the Mississippi House of Representatives passed House Bill 369 or the “Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2013” by a vote of 64-55 after 10 hours of debate.

“I couldn't be prouder of our members today,” said Speaker Gunn. “Passing bipartisan public charter school legislation is the first step in reforming Mississippi's education system. Parents deserve more choices with regards to their student's education.”

In addition to Charter School legislation, Speaker Gunn and House members plan on bringing forward an entire package of educational reforms during the 2013 session. Some of the focal points include emphasis on the third grade reading level, appointed superintendents and tax-credit scholarships.

“As I’ve said before, charter schools are just one tool in the toolbox,” said Speaker Gunn. “My focus this session is on education reform as a whole. Our system is broken and needs to be repaired. Our children deserve better. With our proposed legislation, our school children will have more opportunities to excel.


13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well it barely passed. 5 GOP members voted against it and our IDIOT SPEAKER didnt help matters any. Once again Speaker "DUMB" has NO IDEA how to do his job. This inexperienced bufoon waits till after 2:00pm yesterday to bring to the floor, not just any bill but, a 500 page-CONTROVERSIAL-piece of legislation. It didnt end till well after 1:00am. He was advised by his pro-temp and others that for something like this you start early in the morning, not in mid- afternoon. Needless to say his rank and file are PISSED. He did this crap last year. Everyone assumed he would learn from that mistake. Obviuosly Speaker DUMB DUMB is a SLOW LEARNER. This is what you get when a bunch of incoming freshmen vote for an idiot for speaker and the seasoned veterans voted for someone they knew had the experience to lead, he only won the speaker race in his caucus by ONE vote. To some this might not seem like a big deal but, one day we are going to lose a close vote because Speaker DUMB DUMB has NO IDEA what he is doing.

Anonymous said...

I know Speaker Gunn and he is not dumb. Other than the fact that this is a controversial bill, what made the debate long was the fact that one opponent asked for the 200+ page bill to be read in its entireity, which is the right of any member to demand. The reading added hours to the debate time. Every member has the right ot have the bill read simply by requesting it. No speaker can control this.

Anonymous said...

The first commentor seems to be complaining that Gunn is an ineffective speaker because he accomplished what Republicans have been unable to do for over a decade. I would suggest his comment is proof of who the "dumb dumb" is.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:02...9:16 was correct...everyone knew someone from across the aisle was going to ask for a reading of the bill...thats why you start proceedings early. Guess you dont remember last year all the trouble we had in committee with this bill. Our "Illustrious" Speaker put a bunch of anti-charter school Reps. from our party, Desoto County people, ect. on the committee and we had problems we didnt need. Common sense isnt something you can learn.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:02...9:16 was correct...everyone knew someone from across the aisle was going to ask for a reading of the bill...thats why you start proceedings early. Guess you dont remember last year all the trouble we had in committee with this bill. Our "Illustrious" Speaker put a bunch of anti-charter school Reps. from our party, Desoto County people, ect. on the committee and we had problems we didnt need. Common sense isnt something you can learn.

Anonymous said...

All of y'all could not find an elephant in a five-acre filed today. The majority party had the votes to pass this legislation, simple as that. It was pure and simple math, arithmetic, made ZERO difference at what particular time the vote took place, or how many times the Bill was read aloud, or who the Speaker was, or is, or anything else. I suppose COUNTING is not something y'all ever learned to do. I suggest trying some online courses instead of blogs all day.

Anonymous said...

@10:57 you are correct...we control the house...we got the votes...the speaker had nothing to do with our success..but he sure can make things harder than they need to be, or easier. I prefer easy.

Anonymous said...

I approve of the Speaker and the bill, but I'm not a 'we'. The provision that the districts live within their means as instead of an automatic tax increases will be helpful. The management of complicated state funding and all the fed regs makes education very costly to taxpayers via the administrative and legal expense not to mention the industrial model of learning that further increases plant operation and transit costs. I say to Speaker Gunn...thanks for this first step.

Anonymous said...

@ the first commenter: "Needless to say his rank and file are PISSED."

Get over it. Do you really think I give a damn if an elected politician is pissed cause he had to actually be at the capitol for more than 4 hours?

You ran for the office
You won election
Now do the job.

the bill got passed. I imagine it was a long and frustrating night. On to the next step.

Anonymous said...

The difference in how Tate runs the Senate and the chaos in the house is clear.

Anonymous said...

Apples and oranges greenhorn @ 6:34 PM.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know why Rep. Aldridge has been absent/not voted this week?

He was listed as absent last night.

Shadowfax said...

I'm in agreement with 1:55. Who cares that these troughers had to be at work until midnight. In the private sector we don't enjoy 9 to 3 work hours. Why should these people? So, Ticos was closed, the per-diem abusers got home late and a mistress or two was left sitting at the motel. Life in the big leagues.



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