{"id":28715,"date":"2015-10-30T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=28715"},"modified":"2015-11-04T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:29:42","slug":"ballot-initiatives-42-and-42a-dominate-upcoming-mississippi-election-on-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ballot-initiatives-42-and-42a-dominate-upcoming-mississippi-election-on-november-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot Initiatives 42 and 42A Dominate Upcoming Mississippi Election on November 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

~Education Initiatives Sharply Divide Public Opinion~<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In The Local Voice #241 (October 29 – November 12, 2015),<\/span> we printed two opinion pieces on these initiatives.<\/span>
\nClick the links below to read the articles<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Initiative 42 v. 42A: Why only the former guarantees full educational funding
\n<\/strong>(by Geoffrey M. and Leigh Long Latham)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Why Initiative 42 is not the answer for Mississippi\u2019s problems in Education
\n<\/strong>(by Sean Johnson)<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Sample of the official initiative ballot below:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sample42Ballot_cropped_withtext\"<\/a>
Can’t read the text? Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

–<\/p>\n

\"November3rdBallotLocalInterest-650\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~Education Initiatives Sharply Divide Public Opinion~ In The Local Voice #241 (October 29 – November 12, 2015), we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":28711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[7372,7376,7378,7377,7385,7383,7384,243,7379,7374,7375,7380,5,7373,7381,2117,241,2377,7382],"class_list":["post-28715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-elections","tag-7372","tag-7376","tag-42-a","tag-42a","tag-article","tag-compare","tag-comparison","tag-election","tag-geoff-latham","tag-initiative","tag-initiatives","tag-leigh-long-latham","tag-mississippi","tag-november-2","tag-opinion","tag-sean-johnson","tag-vote","tag-voting","tag-whats-the-difference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/42BallotInitiativesFEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}