House Education Chairman Rob Roberson, on the heels of a first select committee hearing on school choice and other education policy, tells Mississippi Today that lawmakers should be open to discussions on school choice, consolidation or any other measures that might move the state’s education system forward. “The only people who don’t have school choice now are poor kids,” Roberson said. He said such issues need to be detached from partisan politics and viewed with open minds.
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