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Better Schools, Better Jobs, a statewide coalition that is pushing for full funding of MAEP, announced Monday that circuit clerks in 82 counties certified 121,691 petitions to present to the Mississippi secretary of state's office to get the initiative on the ballot in November 2015. The proposal does not involve raising taxes.

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Education-Funding Initiative Gets Enough Petitions to Make 2015 Ballot

Almost 200,000 Mississippians from around the state have signed a petition for a state initiative to require lawmakers to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program—far more than the 107,216 …

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