Mississippi Schools Would Save $107 Million By Using Public Employees, Not Private Contractors
20 Oct 2015

Mississippi Schools Would Save $107 Million By Using Public Employees, Not Private Contractors

by | Date: 20 Oct 2015 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, Public Good News, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A recent report by the Mississippi State Auditor finds that K-12 schools would have an additional $107 million to spend on classrooms if they stopped contracting out services and instead provided them in-house with their own public employees.

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David Morris is co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and currently ILSR's distinguished fellow. His five non-fiction books range from an analysis of Chilean development to the future of electric power to the transformation of cities and neighborhoods.  For 14 years he was a regular columnist for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. His essays on public policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Salon, Alternet, Common Dreams, and the Huffington Post.