{"id":28689,"date":"2013-06-17T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=28689"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:28:17","slug":"northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-mullins-qa-state-still-has-obstacles-to-overcome-read-more-northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-mullins-qa-state-still-has-obstacles-to-overcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-mullins-qa-state-still-has-obstacles-to-overcome-read-more-northeast-mississippi-daily-journal-mullins-qa-state-still-has-obstacles-to-overcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Mullins Q&A: State still has obstacles to overcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Miss. – Andy Mullins, who has been a leader in public education in Mississippi for more than 30 years, will retire at the end of this month from his current job as chief of staff to University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones.<\/p>\n

Mullins has served as a special assistant to two governors and three state superintendents of education and has been a member of the Ole Miss administration since 1994. He co-founded the Mississippi Teacher Corps program and was a member of Gov. William Winter\u2019s staff that helped usher the passing of the landmark 1982 Education Reform Act.<\/p>\n

As Mullins nears his retirement, Daily Journal education reporter Chris Kieffer asked him to reflect on his career in education. Read the entire story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Miss. – Andy Mullins, who has been a leader in public education in Mississippi for more than 30 years, will retire at the end of this month from his current job as chief of staff to University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones. 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