State Journal

If Mississippi school boards are going to set high standards for students, shouldn't their members be educated, too?

That's the question before the Senate education committee, which is considering a bill to require school board members to have high school diplomas or the equivalent.

While most of the members of the state's 152 local school boards do, indeed, hold sheepskins, some don't. And that doesn't seem fitting any longer in a state that is putting a big emphasis on literacy for its young...