The PERS Study Commission has released its recommendations. A summary of the highlights follows. Click here to read the Commission’s full report.Highlighted Recommendations of the PERS Study Commission: The PERS Board should reconsider lowering its investment return assumption from 8 percent to 7.5 percent as recommended by PERS’ own actuary, Cavanaugh MacDonald. Over the last ten years, PERS has […]
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Kelly Riley, Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Professional Educators, provided the following summaries of the recent meetings of the PERS Study Commission: November 16, 2011 Meeting of PERS Study Commission · The Management Subcommittee presented four recommendations, the first of which recommended that the Legislature consider revising the composition of the PERS Board of
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The Mississippi Child Care Quality Step System is designed to provide incentives to improve the quality of existing early childhood education and after-school programs and provide Mississippi children the skills necessary for success in school. This system allows licensed programs that choose to participate to receive monetary rewards (quality bonuses over and above the current
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State dropout data on Class of 2010, reported by MDE May 4, 2011: Mississippi’s dropout rate is 17% for the four-year cohort that began with first time 9th graders in the 2006-2007 school year and ended with the 2009-2010 school year. Click here to find school district-level dropout rates. Dropout rates for Class of 2010
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In FY 2012, Education Funding Continues to Move Backward Funding for public schools continues to decrease, both in actual dollars and as a percent of the overall state budget. For Fiscal Year 2012 (school year 2011-2012), school funding was cut by an additional $14-million, with $5.5-million coming from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). This means that, for
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Funding for public schools continues to decrease, both in actual dollars and as a percent of the overall state budget. For Fiscal Year 2012 (FY2012, the current school year), school funding was cut by an additional $14-million, with $5.5-million coming from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). This means that, for FY2012, the MAEP is underfunded by $237,386,693.
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Though virtually every state leader claims to hold public education as a priority, schools have borne a disproportionate share of the budget cuts over the last four years. For the current year, while the whole state budget grew by 0.03%, K-12 education was cut by 0.7%. Of 16 major funding categories (state agencies), six saw their
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For the current school year (2011-2012), the MAEP is underfunded by $237-millionFour consecutive years of budget cuts have resulted in: oThe loss of over 3,000 education personneloIncreased class sizeoReduced elective optionsoReduced advanced placement offeringsoReduced gifted classesoReduced intervention programs for struggling studentso Reduced extracurricular activities Though virtually every state leader claims to hold public education as a
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A recent Mississippi Economic Council survey revealed that the number one concern of Mississippi business leaders and community stakeholders is education. The survey report states, “Far and away the most significant input, shared by everyone in the state, regards education. Through the stakeholder input forms, every city reported Education as the number one concern for their
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A portion of a school district’s budget is made up of local ad valorem tax dollars (property taxes). This is often referred to as the local contribution. Years ago, the Mississippi Legislature decided to offset a portion of the local ad valorem tax with state dollars. The total state appropriation for Fiscal Year 2011 (2010-2011 school year)
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