2011

weeK oF _q/r3/ 11 l t 'CAPITOL DAY' PARTICIPANTS

Submitted photo Proudly wearing "Vote Mississippi Values" shirts while displaying the "Mississippi Values" banner are representatives from East Central Community College in Decatur, who participated in "Capitol Day" at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The annual event is sponsored by the 900-member Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Faculty Association in support of the state's community and junior colleges. Emphasis this year is to urge lawmakers to follow through on their 2007 commitment to mid-level funding. Mid-level mandates per-student funding for community and junior colleges that is midway between per-student funding for K-12 students and regional public university students. The colleges need $134 million to completely achieve mid-level funding, which is a gap of $2 ,288 per student. From left are: sophomore Garrett Moore, Union; Kate Covich, speech instructor; Wanda Hurley, Chair of Social Science, Physical Education and Business Division and economics instructor; Marc McCool, social science instructor; sophomore Anna Alexander, Little Rock; sophomore John Blount, Philadelphia; freshman Raychal Reed, Louisville; Chris Harris, director of personnel services/athletic director/work-based learning coordinator; Christy Ferguson, business technology instructor; and freshman Joe Morgan and sophomore Brian Wiseman, both of Newton.

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CARTHAGINIAN----- - NEWTON COUNTY APPEAL _ _ _ SPIRIT OF MORTON ---1('----- - ---- MERIDIAN STAR__ \)_____