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MC Graduate Tom Burnham Named Mississippi Superintendent of Education
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Mississippi's financial squeeze will be one of the key issues facing Mississippi College graduate Tom Burnham, who will return to his post as the state's superintendent of education.
A native of Puckett in Rankin County, Burnham led Mississippi's public school system from 1992 until 1997.
Mississippi's financial squeeze will be one of the key issues facing Mississippi College graduate Tom Burnham, who will return to his post as the state's superintendent of education.
A native of Puckett in Rankin County, Burnham led Mississippi's public school system from 1992 until 1997.
He serves as School of Education dean at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
The state Board of Education interviewed four candidates and unanimously selected the 63-year-old Burnham to succeed former Superintendent Hank Bounds, who resigned to become Mississippi higher education commissioner.
In a phone interview Wednesday from his Oxford office, Burnham said the new position in Jackson will bring "a number of challenges, but if you are not careful, you will talk about the problems, and not the solutions."
Given Mississippi's shrinking pool of financial resources in the mids