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, […]
School Funding Compromise Passes the House Read More »
The Senate has passed a resolution suspending deadlines to allow the introduction of a bill to create a new school funding law. SCR 548 calls for a funding law that includes key elements outlined in a letter that education associations sent to legislative leaders in February: an objective formula for determining the base student cost
Senate Suspends Rules to Introduce New School Funding Bill Read More »
With lots of bills in final negotiations, this is a critical time in the legislative session. Your legislators need to know that you are paying attention. Leave messages for senators and representatives at the Capitol switchboard: 601.359.3770. We’ll keep you posted on any major developments. Bills we are following: • HB 765, as it passed the Senate,
Bills in Conference Negotiations Read More »
Most of the bills we are following have been sent to conference, which means three members from each chamber will decide the final language of the legislation. Legislative leaders have indicated that their goal is to wrap up their work in the coming week and adjourn the 2024 session early. Thank you for all of the
Update from the Capitol Read More »
This afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee amended and passed HB 1988, the Children’s Promise Act, which provides tax credits benefiting private schools. While the committee has removed for now the tremendous increase in these tax credits, if the bill goes to conference it very well could come back with millions more in state tax dollars
Senate Finance Committee Advances Bill Benefiting Private Schools Read More »
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
Full Senate Passes $1,000 Teacher Pay Raise, Increase in MAEP Funding Read More »
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
Senate Includes Teacher Pay Raise in Substantial School Funding Increase Read More »
HB 1988, the Children’s Promise Act bill that provides a massive increase in tax credits benefiting private schools, has passed the House but has not passed a Senate committee. Please ASK SENATORS TO AMEND THE BILL TO HAVE THESE TAX CREDITS BENEFIT ONLY ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. The bill could be taken up in
Education Bills That Survived Today’s Committee Deadline Read More »
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
House Has New INSPIRE Numbers Read More »
Compared to the MAEP, every Mississippi public school district loses under the school funding plan proposed in HB 1453, the INSPIRE Act. The Parents’ Campaign Research and Education Fund ran the numbers estimating the funding each school district would receive in the coming year and for ten subsequent years with each of three school funding
MAEP Outperforms INSPIRE in Every School District Read More »
