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Miss. Charter School Board Gets $125K in Grants

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board has accepted $125,500 in grants.

The board voted Monday to accept $100,000 from Mississippi Common Fund Foundation and $25,500 from Mississippi First Inc.

A law passed earlier this year expands authority to create charter schools — public schools run by private groups that meet certain standards.

Money has been a key issue as the board moves ahead with efforts to hire an executive director.

Lawmakers didn't appropriate any cash, envisioning that donors would pay startup costs. The board will collect a fee of 3 percent of state aid from schools once they open, but that might not happen until August 2015.

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