Thank you for your calls to the House on the Children’s Promise Act bills (HB 1902 and HB 1903), which would increase dramatically the tax dollars being diverted to fund private schools. Unfortunately, both passed the House and are headed to the Senate. See the House votes: HB 1902 HB 1903 All “school choice” and […]
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Two bills that would increase dramatically the public money going to private schools are being rammed through the Mississippi House of Representatives at lightning speed. HB 1902 and HB 1903 both increase the tax dollars benefiting private schools through a program dubbed the “Children’s Promise Act.” Both bills appeared online for the first time this
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The public school choice, ESA voucher and charter school expansion, consolidation, and “Tim Tebow” bills that passed the House have been referred to the Senate Education Committee. More detailed explanations are below. Please reach out to members of the Senate Education Committee and ask them to vote NO on HB 1078, HB 1431, HB 1432, HB 1435, and
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HB 1433 is dead! Many thanks to members of the House who stood up for our public schools and their constituents to defeat this harmful legislation that allowed public and private school choice/vouchers. And many thanks to the thousands of moms, dads, grandparents, educators, and concerned citizens who reached out to your legislators about your
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A proposed amendment to the MSFF, the new school funding law, would reduce funding to public schools by millions of dollars. When the law was drafted, it changed the student count on which school funding is based from average daily attendance to net enrollment, and the definition for net enrollment included all students enrolled in
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Please keep calling your representatives, urging them to vote NO on harmful “school choice” bills. There is some good news. Special thanks is due Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar and Senate Education Committee members for standing up for our public schools. Twice in two days they declined to move forward harmful “choice” bills. A number
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Your calls to legislators apparently are working so well that House leadership doesn’t dare count actual votes in committee. House Education Chair Rob Roberson acknowledged in today’s committee meeting that representatives had received “millions of phone calls and texts” from constituents opposed to HB 1433 (public and private school choice), but he urged committee members
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The House Education Committee will meet at 1:00 p.m. today and could take up several bills expanding school choice, including: HB 1433, which provides for public and private school “choice” HB 1078, a bill removing provisions passed in the 2024 session that tightened up the ESA voucher statute and allowing an unnamed nonprofit to receive
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