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Video: State Board Approves New Graduation Option

This school year, high school seniors will have one additional option to meet graduation requirements if they don’t pass one or more exams in the Subject Area Test Program (SATP) and don’t meet previously approved alternative options.

'Bama Employment Numbers Continue to Improve

Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted January unemployment rate is 6.0%, down from December 2014’s revised rate of 6.1%, and below January 2014’s rate of 7.2%

McDaniel Coalition Weakens in State Senate

Nearly two years ago, the newly formed Mississippi Senate Conservative Coalition was preparing to make life uncomfortable for Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, a fellow Republican whom the coalition’s leaders viewed as too willing to work across party lines.

Legislature Addressing Cancer Pill Insurance Issue

Health insurers would be banned from making patients pay higher out-of-pocket costs for oral medication taken at home than for chemotherapy taken in a health care facility, under a bill moving through the Mississippi Legislature.

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