Funding

Senate Passes Teacher Pay Raise Bill

The Senate this week passed its own version of a teacher pay raise bill, differing from the previously passed House bill by providing higher increases up front and eliminating the benchmark requirements. The Senate plan also provides for a performance-based stipend available to teachers beginning in 2016. Lt. Governor Reeves and Senate Education Chair Gray Tollison […]

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Privatization Agenda: Starving Public Schools, Pushing Private School Vouchers

Privatizing and “profitizing” public education? That is exactly what the voucher bills debated in the 2014 Legislative Session were intended to do – and they had “disingenuous” and “unintended consequences” written all over them. House Bill 765, defeated by the House of Representatives on the last day of the session, was very broad, allowing private

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Another Chance to Amend K-12 Funding Bill, Increase MAEP

We will have another chance to amend HB 1476, the K-12 funding bill, to increase the funding for the Mississippi  Adequate Education Program (MAEP).Phone calls to legislators from Mississippi parents and educators about the education funding bill are having an effect – we need to keep it up!There is reason to believe that an amendment to increase MAEP funding will

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It’s Time to Fund a Decent Education for Our Kids

Lately, the airwaves have been abuzz with talk of funding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), the state law that promises our children resources sufficient for an adequate education.Here’s the bottom line: the recession is over. State revenue is back to 2008 levels, which was the last year that the MAEP was fully funded. It’s time for the Legislature

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Fund Students (MAEP) or Pet Programs?

State leaders, frustrated by Mississippi’s perennial placement near the bottom of education rankings, have taken to saying that they want to “fund what works” in education. The implication is that they want to move away from the per-student funding provided through the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) and instead simply fund their pet education programs.

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Adequate Funding Is Needed to Make Mississippi Students Competitive

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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Joint Legislative Budget Committee Members On Full Funding of the MAEP

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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