“Even the best school isn’t the best school for every student,” Dr. Lindsey Burke said Monday at a hearing of the Mississippi House Select Committee on Education Freedom.

Members of the Mississippi House Select Committee on Education Freedom heard testimony from two Trump administration officials on Monday on how school choice could help students and parents in the Magnolia State.

While the two officials praised the state’s rise in national education rankings, they told a packed hearing room that school choice could increase Mississippi’s standing even further.

Dr. Laurie Todd-Smith, a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said, “I think Mississippi could reall

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