Please join us in thanking our friends in the Mississippi House for rejecting the final remaining public school choice measure. SB 2618, a school attendance officer bill, had been amended in the House Education Committee to include choice/portability language. The bill died on today’s deadline when Chairman Roberson declined to take it up for a […]
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With the final legislative deadlines looming, our children are counting on us to keeping pushing until the very end to ensure that our public school supporters in the Legislature have the backing they need to defeat the voucher lobby. Just a few measures remain that need our attention. SB 2618 is the school attendance officer bill
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Mississippi has lost an icon and a staunch advocate for public education with the passing of former Speaker Pro Tempore Robert Clark, Jr., at the age of 96. Speaker Pro Tem Clark was a teacher, a coach, a civil rights activist, and the first Black legislator elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction. First elected to the
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Today, your senators stood with you for strong public schools for ALL Mississippi children! The Senate Education Committee declined to take up the school choice bills – House bills 1078 (expands ESA vouchers), 1432 (charter school expansion), 1435 (public school choice), and 1617 (“Tim Tebow” – homeschoolers participate in public school activities) as well as
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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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