Similar to the shenanigans in the 2025 Legislative Session, we are finding the Children’s Promise Act (private school funding) inserted in multiple bills. Public school supporters in both the House and Senate are aware and are helping us watch for the language popping up in random legislation. Shout-out to Rep. Willie Bailey of Greenville, who caught […]
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This afternoon, the Senate amended HB 1395 to include another teacher pay raise, this one a $6,000 total raise spread over three years for certified teachers (a $2,000 increase in each year). Special education teachers who are teaching special education in a public school would get an additional $3,000 spread over those same three years ($9,000
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Today, Tuesday, March 10, is Primary Election Day, when Mississippians will choose the candidates who will move forward to the November General Election for the U.S. House and Senate. Polls are open now and will remain open until 7:00 this evening. You can find your polling place here. One of our most important civic obligations is
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The Senate Finance Committee will meet tomorrow at 1:15 p.m., and it is possible that the committee could take up HB 1944, the bill that would send millions more in state funding to private schools, some at the expense of foster care organizations. Voucher supporters want you to believe that the tax credits benefiting private schools in
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This morning, the Mississippi House amended SB 2103 to remove the bill’s original language and replace it with a teacher and assistant teacher pay raise. The bill provides certified teachers a $5,000 across-the-board pay raise, with special education teachers who are teaching special education in a public school receiving an additional $3,000 raise ($8,000 total).
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Next Tuesday, March 10, Mississippi voters will head to the polls for the Primary Election to choose who will move forward to the November General Election for the U.S. House and Senate. If you won’t be able to make it to the polls on Tuesday, the deadline to vote absentee in person is this Saturday, March
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Today was the deadline for House bills to pass Senate committees and for Senate bills to pass House committees. Very few of the bills we are following made it out alive. This feels like a repeat of last year’s session, in which the House killed the Senate bills and the Senate killed the House bills. BUT, there
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HB 1944, the Children’s Promise Act private school funding bill, passed the House on an 80-35 vote. See how your rep voted. The bill now will go to the Senate, where it is likely to be referred to the Finance Committee. Details of the bill are below. House members were misled in committee and on the floor about the impact
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HB 1944, the Children’s Promise Act private school funding bill, passed the House Ways and Means Committee this afternoon and now will go to the floor of the House for a vote of the full chamber. Details of the bill are below. Tomorrow is the deadline for this bill to pass the full House, so please reach out right
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The Mississippi House has gone home for the weekend without HB 1944 – their latest private school funding bill – being acted on by the Ways and Means Committee, to which it is assigned. HB 1944 increases state funding for private schools through a tax-credit program dubbed the Children’s Promise Act, and would send millions more in state funding
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