Today, The Parents’ Campaign is celebrating 15 years of advocacy for Mississippi children and public schools! We’re thrilled at the progress that has been made since our official start on March 31, 2006. Beginning with concerned moms chatting around a kitchen table, The Parents’ Campaign grew quickly, bringing parents, grandparents, educators, and community, faith, and […]
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Thank you for making all those calls to legislators today about the private school voucher provision that was sneaked into the 1,000-page bond bill just before midnight. It worked! A big THANK-YOU to our legislators for insisting that the language creating a new voucher program be removed. This evening, the House and Senate adopted the conference
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A conferee on the Legislature’s giant bond bill (1,000+ pages) sneaked in a provision for private school vouchers. It’s not been voted on by the House or Senate yet, so please call your legislators immediately! Ask your representative and senator to REMOVE THE VOUCHER PROVISION from the bond bill or recommit the bill. Capitol switchboard:
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The state budget wasn’t yet finalized when tonight’s 8:00 p.m. deadline for filing appropriations conference reports rolled around, so conferees for the pre-k-12 budget bill filed a “dummy” report, with $0 appropriated, to meet the deadline and keep the bill alive while they hammer out final details. A few of the bills we’ve been tracking have
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The 2021 Legislative Session is moving quickly toward a close, with the leadership indicating that they hope to wrap it up this weekend. Lots of work remains, and we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop as final details emerge. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee met last week and raised the revenue estimate for
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The State Board of Education (SBE) has modified its proposed change to the Statewide Accountability System to include the WorkKeys assessment as a career-readiness indicator in the College- and Career-Readiness (CCR) component. The public has until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26, to provide feedback to the board before the final change is adopted. At
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The teacher pay raise is on its way to Gov. Reeves for his signature! A big THANK YOU to legislators in the House and Senate for this important move. This morning, the House concurred with the Senate amendment to HB 852, the teacher pay raise bill, which provides a $1,000 salary increase for assistant teachers and
Teacher Pay Raise Headed to Gov. Reeves! Read More »
The teacher pay raise remains in limbo, awaiting action in the Mississippi House. The good news is that the House removed the teacher pay raise language from the unvetted tax swap that continues to be pushed by the House leadership. The bad news is that the House has yet to act on the stand-alone teacher pay raise
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The fate of the teacher pay raise rests with the Mississippi House. Word is that passage of the teacher pay raise is being caught up in negotiations over the unvetted tax swap being pushed by the House leadership. Our teachers have gone to the mat for us, working overtime under extremely difficult conditions to keep
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The teacher pay raise bill has once again passed the full Senate on a unanimous vote. The Senate amended HB 852 to replace the House language with the Senate pay raise language. The amended bill provides: $37,000 starting salary for teachers with two years of experience and less ($1,110 raise) $1,000 pay raise for certified teachers with
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