The House of Representatives passed the school funding bill today. HB 1643 provides no increase in the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), under-funding schools by $172-million, and cuts the overall K-12 budget by about $7.6-million. Nearly every state agency has its funding reduced in this budget, due to revenue shortfalls caused by years of corporate tax cuts. Each appropriation bill […]
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The decisions legislators make on corporate tax breaks have a direct impact on the level of funding our children’s schools receive. Special legislative favors, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks granted to corporations over the last few years, are shrinking state revenue. Legislators now propose to solve their self-created
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This week we will get our first look at how legislators will respond to last November’s clarion call for adequate funding for our children’s schools. Hundreds of thousands of Mississippians will be watching closely. The House Appropriations Committee will meet tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.; the deadline for the House floor vote on school funding is next Wednesday.
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House Bill 33 amends the existing special education voucher law to expand the time period in which a student can have had an active Individualized Education Program (IEP) from 18 months to five years to be eligible for a voucher. A troublesome development with this bill occured when Education Chairman John Moore proposed an amendment adding a reverse
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While many disastrous education bills have died and others will be battled in the next stage of the process, two harmful bills remain on the current calendar. Please continue to have conversations with your legislators about these bills: SB 2161, the Senate charter school bill, is on the Senate “Motion to Reconsider” calendar, so senators could
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Thanks for your great work! SB 2161, the Senate charter school bill, has been held on a motion to reconsider, so senators could have another chance to vote on this bill tomorrow. The bill allows charter schools to locate in school districts rated C without local board approval and allows students in any part of the
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Bills requiring the election of all school board members would result in every school board in Mississippi, including those that currently have appointed members, moving to elected membership. National privatization groups have pushed similar measures in other states with the goal of recruiting and funding the campaigns of pro-privatization candidates to privatize school districts from
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Two detrimental bills that passed the House today could be overturned with your help. House Bills 47 and 29 were held on motions to reconsider, which means that they could be brought back to the floor for a re-vote. Please ask your representative to vote to RECONSIDER HB 47 and HB 29 and then to VOTE
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