With just few simple steps, and about 15 minutes of your time every few weeks, you’ll have the power to influence the laws that affect the quality of your child’s education, school funding, and a whole host of issues that have an impact on your life. Building a local team to keep your legislators informed of your priorities (and to hold […]
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Mississippi schools have been underfunded by more than $1.2-billion in the last 6 years. The failure of our Legislature to provide our children adequate school funding has denied them access to the high quality education afforded children who reside in states that invest well in their schools. Here’s what our children could get with adequate school funding… More Advanced Placement offerings $44,200,000
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Prior to the 2011 election, The Parents’ Campaign asked candidates for the Legislature and statewide offices about their willingness to commit to full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program as required in state law. Here’s what the members of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) had to say… Tate Reeves, Lieutenant Governor, Chair of
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Governor Bryant has announced his budget recommendation for Fiscal Year 2015, the budget that will be decided in the coming legislative session. Governor Bryant’s budget underfunds the Mississippi Adequate Education Program by $284.5-million, despite significant increases in state revenue and a $295-million surplus at the end of the 2013 budget year. This budget demonstrates that our children’s
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Draft Charter School Application Guide (RFP) Draft Charter School Application Rubric Instructions for Submitting Public Comments Comments Submitted by The Parents’ Campaign The Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board has released for public review the draft Request for Proposals (RFP), or the Charter School Application Guide, for the establishment of charter schools. Community groups and others
The most recent and extensive study of charter schools (National Charter School Study, CREDO, released June 2013) found that: 25 % of charters performed better in reading than their traditional public school counterparts; 29% of charters performed better in math 19% performed worse in reading than their traditional public school counterparts; 31% of charters performed
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The treaty with the Chickasaw Indian Nation ceding their land to the United States failed to specifically reserve Sixteenth Sections, and when the lands were later sold by the government, no provision was made for the reservation of school trust lands. Later, the United States granted the State of Mississippi lieu land as compensation for
The Quality of Distribution Index (QDI) represents an overall measure of student performance on statewide assessments in a given school year for a school or school district. The QDI is based on a relatively simple concept – if more students score in the higher proficiency levels on the test, the distribution of scores is more
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School District Budget Cuts Go Into Effect NBCT School District Losses Consequences for Children Most Mississippi school districts operate on very thin margins, and the vast majority of any district’s budget is made up of salaries. Teachers operate under contract, and districts are bound by law to honor those contracts, so those salaries must be
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Children go through school only once.Mississippi teachers have one year to lay the critical foundation necessary for a child to move successfully through school and into a bright future. Research has shown conclusively that, when a child is provided an ineffective education for two consecutive years, that child never fully regains his or her lost
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