So now we learn that a finacially strapped Jackson Public Schools is now paying $400 thousand dollars to Lonnie Edwards and Earl Watkins.
We learn more positions have been eliminated.
Here’s the story…..from the Clarion Ledger:
Struggling JPS to pay 2 officials $200,000 each
Elizabeth Crisp
Former Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Earl Watkins will make $200,000 as a consultant for […]
OK…I guess those that are promoting downtown Jackson as crime free can finally GIVE IT UP!!!!!
Not that I don’t want to see downtown Jackson flourish…I just don’t want it done at the expense of excluding African Americans. But that’s another thread for another day!
Crime continues to mount in downtown Jackson. Last week Steve’s Deli then […]
Ok, I was there Thursday at the TelComm center where Mayor Frank E. Melton delivered his final State of the City Adress for his first term as mayor.
To a mostly city-employee audience Melton delivered a speech filled with numbers that were not TRUE.
Like the dropout rate that Melton put at more than 50 percent –and […]
I am having such a hard time wrapping my brain around the leadership of JPS…more particularly the JPS board of directors or trustees or whatever they are called!!!!
Let me say upfront, that I am excited about the selection of Lonnie Edwards as the new chief of JPS, he’s just walking into a bunch of mess. […]
Ok, I got a text last night asking if I had the inside scoop as to what happened between a Jackson Police Officer and a Madison Police Officer…and my answer was no!
I was in Tunica over the weekend and apparently missed this news…..I was then forwarded an article that appeared in Clarion-Ledger….still the article didn’t […]
Though I haven’t seen the polls, I’m told two polls were commissioned and that Harvey Johnson is leading in both, as the person who would best represent Jackson as its next mayor.
I must admit here, that I am a big fan of Harvey Johnson and I thought he did a great job while in office. […]
What was on the minds of these folk today? But kudos to JPD and other law enforcement agencies for their hard work and timely responses.
1) Devin Jones of Jackson was taken into custody today and charged with armed robbery of an I-HOP..he was arrested after a stand-off at the Comfort Inn in southwest […]
I am sooooooooooooooooooooo glad an African American has stepped up to the plate and invested in downtown.
I gotta tell you guys when I went to that last presentation about downtown, I was SICK…I was MAD ass HELL because there weren’t any major black participation.
Even the tool that Ben Allen is using to promote downtown is […]
Watkins resigned on Monday and Edwards begins in a few weeks…..
Here is the story from the C-L today:
http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS/808120379&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
Does this mean we finally move towards advancing and promoting the welfare/well being of our students?
Sunday…August 10…
As I make this post it is 3:18p.m. o n Sunday and I just got a text saying Soul-singer Issac Hayes died earlier this afternoon (like around 2pm). I immediately went to CNN’s website and here is what I found:
(CNN) — Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar […]