Rebecca Sibilia of EdBuild presented her ideas for a student-centered school funding formula to a capacity crowd of observers this afternoon. The media was fully present, as well, and several decided to live stream the event due to the high level of interest. You can view video from The Clarion-Ledger here. Ms. Sibilia advocated a weighted system that provides every student […]
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The House and Senate education committees will meet at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, to hear from EdBuild about a possible revamp of the school funding formula. This meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in Room 216 of the Capitol. The leadership has said that public hearings will be held around the
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2016 school ratings have been released. You can see here how your school and district fared. Teachers and students are due a hearty congratulations. They have managed to stay focused and yield impressive academic improvement on both state and national measures, especially among our scholars with the most challenges. And they did it while weathering an accountability hurricane, with three
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The new school rating system has generated a lot of questions over the last few weeks. The Parents’ Campaign Research and Education Fund has developed tools that shed light on why some schools will see ratings this year that vary significantly from those in years past. The 2016 ratings are the first under the new
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Virtually identical bills for vouchers and other “school choice” initiatives show up regularly in state legislatures across the country. They are the work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – a corporate bill mill that is funded by large for-profit corporations that want to make a buck (many, many bucks) off of taxpayer dollars.
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Speaker Gunn and Lt. Governor Reeves held a press conference today to announce that they have hired a firm, EdBuild, to “examine” our state’s school funding formula, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), saying, “More tax dollars are needed in the classroom…” We agree that the state has done a poor job of providing for our children’s
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