Sign Language Now Fulfills Mississippi’s High School Foreign Language Requirements: #MSLeg Roundup
High school students will now be able to fulfill foreign language requirements with sign language classes under a new law.
High school students will now be able to fulfill foreign language requirements with sign language classes under a new law.
Advocates for Medicaid expansion rallied at the Mississippi Capitol Building in Jackson, Miss., this week as the Legislature began negotiations.
Though efforts to close or merge some universities failed, lawmakers could still consider closing some universities under another study proposal.
Attorneys arguing that Mississippi’s state House and Senate maps are illegal racial gerrymanders are making closing arguments.
Mississippi University for Women could be merged into Mississippi State University under a bill lawmakers will soon vote on.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba called renewed efforts for a state takeover of Jackson’s water system an “effort to seize control of a Black city.”
Mississippi Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, said he doubts a bill to close three universities will survive a legislative deadline Tuesday.
A vote to expand Medicaid to at least 200,000 people won a veto-proof majority in the Mississippi House on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the first time either legislative chamber in Mississippi has taken a vote on Medicaid expansion since it became an option under former President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Mississippi House is preparing to debate expanding Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in the poorest state in the nation.
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