Comment on OUR OPINION: Unmet funding promise deepens for public schools

New financial figures released by the 42 for Better Schools group Monday shows, district by district, through the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year, a cumulative $1.7 billion shortfall over seven years, impacting and effectively weakening every school district. The Legislature passed a law in 1997 that promised each public school district in Mississippi would receive enough financial support to adequately fund every K-12 education program in our state.