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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The Mississippi House has introduced yet another private school funding bill – this one to send more state funding to private schools via Children’s Promise Act tax credits. You might remember the Children’s Promise Act from last year – our network helped to defeat repeated attempts to increase Children’s Promise Act private school funding in 2025. This year’s version, HB 1944,
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Today was the deadline for bills to pass the chamber in which the bill originated. See below the fate of the bills we are following. BILLS WE OPPOSE – Ask legislators to VOTE NO HB 1234 – School accountability dashboard – Creates enormous, unnecessary, and costly administrative tasks for public schools, mandating new accountability “dashboards” on which
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The House of Representatives has passed unanimously a $5,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise and an additional $3,000 increase for special education teachers who are teaching in the special education field in a public school. See the vote. Included in that bill (HB 1126) are numerous provisions unrelated to teacher salaries, provisions we believe should be dealt with in
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This afternoon, the House Education and Appropriations Committees passed HB 1126, calling for a $5,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise and an additional $3,000 increase for special education teachers who are teaching in the special education field in a public school. HB 1126 now will go to the full House for a vote. In other big news, the Senate
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We need your help with a variety of bills awaiting votes in the House and Senate – some good and some very bad. Please reach out to your legislators right away about the following bills. Bills awaiting House votes:HB 1234 – School accountability dashboard – Creates new accountability “dashboards” on which public schools would be required
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Last Thursday, the Senate Education Committee passed a number of bills, two of which we are following closely: SB 2487 – provides an expansion of Mississippi’s literacy initiative into the middle grades, an issue that has been on The Parents’ Campaign’s legislative priorities list for several years. The committee substitute for SB 2487, the amended version of
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Gov. Reeves has opted Mississippi into the federal tax-credit voucher program created by Congress last year, bringing federal vouchers to Mississippi. The law will use federal tax dollars to pay back donors for contributions to “Scholarship Granting Organizations” (SGOs) that provide vouchers for private school tuition. See the details here. Gov. Reeves will choose the SGOs that will
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House Bill 2, the massive voucher/school choice bill that would let state-funded schools pick and choose their students, barely passed the House this afternoon on a 61-59 vote following a 4-hour debate. Opposition to the bill was bipartisan. See your representative’s vote. You can watch a recording of the full debate here. Please share this vote report broadly. Save
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