Senate Bill 2675, the ESA voucher bill, passed the Senate today on a vote of 37 to 13. The bill will now go to the House. Please ask your representative to VOTE NO on 2675. Find contact information for all of the House members who represent your districts. Share the same message with Speaker Philip Gunn Capitol: […]
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Today is the deadline to submit public comments on year-round school. In an effort to learn more about a “balanced calendar” or year-round approach to school, the Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 9, in Room 216 of the Capitol. The committee will hear from Corinth School
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The Mississippi Legislature will reconvene at 1 p.m. on Monday, August 10, to address issues related to COVID-19. We are hopeful that, while they are in session, the Legislature will resolve the school budget crisis created when Gov. Reeves vetoed the public school funding in HB 1700. As we reported earlier, Gov. Reeves vetoed the
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Here’s a quick update on progress to date on the education bills we are watching… On the House calendar awaiting a floor vote – deadline next Thursday, March 12: HB 989 – Limits Local Control/School Board Authority – VOTE NO – Prohibits local school boards from raising ad valorem taxes for the support of the school district when the
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This morning, the Senate Education and Appropriations Committees passed SB 2594, a bill that puts in place new accountability measures for Mississippi’s ESA voucher program. And that giant online school loophole we asked you to call about? It was removed, so thank you for your work on that! SB 2594 requires that private schools receiving
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Please keep calling about the voucher bill. Your calls are making a difference! SB 2594 narrows the ESA voucher program by requiring that private voucher schools provide the special education services called for in a voucher student’s IEP. That’s good. But there’s a giant loophole that lets voucher schools circumvent this key requirement: allowing online
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Tuesday was a great day for our children, our teachers, and our public schools. Election 2019 is shaping up to be a good one for public education, but we need your help again to ensure that we reach that goal. Bill Waller, Jr. will face Lt. Governor Tate Reeves in the Republican Primary runoff on
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The mudslinging is in full force! Direct mail attack ads are showing up in mailboxes, and they have a couple of common themes: • they are funded by Empower Mississippi, the pro-voucher group funded out of D.C. and San Francisco • they target candidates who have run pro-teacher, pro-public education campaigns It appears that Empower
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Folks in the know believe public education voters can swing this election. They are talking about you! But we must get every single public school supporter to the polls. And they must know which candidates will stand up for our public schools. We need your help, and it’s as easy as 1-2-3… 1. KNOW which candidates
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If you support our public schools, our children need your vote in the August 6 Primary Election. The stakes are HUGE! There are many pro-public school candidates running in both party primaries and you can read where candidates stand on issues like teacher pay, vouchers, pre-k, and school funding on our Candidate Q&A website. If there are candidates in your
