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There’s a renewed court fight to keep public dollars out of private schools in Mississippi. It’s been a year since the legislature created a $10 million dollar grant program designed to be used by private schools.
This crisis response mechanism will help newsrooms in at-risk markets, starting with Ukraine, to accelerate their validation according to the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) and to quickly get their NewsGuard rating, thereby allowing advertisers, funders and tech companies to support endangered journalism.
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has appealed a lawsuit about public money being allocated to private schools, arguing that because the money came from federal funds, it does not violate the state constitution.
Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.
The policies have energised Governor Ron DeSantis’ supporters and are part of the platform from which he is expected to run for president.