April 2024

Today, the Senate passed HB 4130, creating the Mississippi Student Funding Formula to replace the MAEP as Mississippi’s school funding law. The bill now will go to the governor for his signature. The Senate released a projection showing how each district fares under the new plan. See it here. Senate Education Chair Dennis DeBar explained that the bill […]

Thank you for your calls on school funding! The House and Senate have come to an agreement on the school funding law that we believe is a good compromise. It includes an objective formula that has components similar to the MAEP as well as increased needs-based funding similar to that proposed by the House. This afternoon,

This morning, the full Senate passed its version of the public school appropriation bill, which provides a $206-million increase in MAEP funding and a $1,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise. The total increase over current year funding is $256-million, almost identical to the increase proposed by the House. It is wonderful that both chambers want to

Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee amended the education appropriations bill to provide a $256-million increase to public schools over current-year MAEP funding, essentially the same increase that the House proposed, though $50-million of the funding in the Senate plan would go toward a $1,000 across-the-board pay raise for teachers. The pay raise would help teachers

Shortly after we posted our comparison of the various school funding proposals on Friday, the House reached out to say they have new numbers they’d like you to see. The analysis we sent Friday used the per-district numbers that each chamber distributed to its members during floor debate on its proposed plan. Apparently, the numbers