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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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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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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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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House Bill 2, the Education Freedom Act, passed the House Education Committee this morning on a 13-11 vote and is now on the calendar for a vote by the full House. See the committee vote. Numerous committee members expressed opposition to the bill. Chairman Roberson introduced a committee substitute amendment that limits the bill’s charter school expansion
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