The U.S. Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the tax-credit voucher provision in HR 1 cannot be included in the federal budget reconciliation bill. Budget reconciliation is an expedited process that allows legislation to pass the U.S. Senate with only a simple majority (51 votes), bypassing the Senate filibuster rules that require a 60-vote majority. The […]
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This afternoon, more than 40 Mississippi parents, educators, school board members, and business/community leaders met virtually with Sen. Roger Wicker’s staff to urge that he use his considerable leverage to have the tax-credit voucher provision removed from the federal budget reconciliation bill – a provision that would force private school vouchers into every state, including ours.
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has released its version of HR 1 (referred to as the “One Big Beautiful bill”), which would unravel all of the hard work we’ve done to keep vouchers out of Mississippi. One of the few changes made by the Senate committee to the voucher section of the bill actually made it worse,
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Mississippi has achieved its highest education ranking in history in the national KIDS COUNT report! The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s latest KIDS COUNT Data Book ranks Mississippi 16th in the nation in education, up from 30th in 2024. The 2025 Data Book ranks Mississippi 48th overall in child well-being. Kudos to our rock star teachers and
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