Funding

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) is due to make its budget recommendation in the next few weeks, and its recommendation is considered the baseline budget from which the Legislature will begin to structure the state budget for the coming year.  The committee of 6 Representatives and 6 Senators, led by Speaker Billy McCoy and Lt. Governor […]

Click on the links below for information about some of Governor Barbour’s budget recommendations and budget cuts since 2008. Governor Barbour’s FY12 (2011-2012) Budget Recommendation Barbour Pushes $65-Million Cut (FY12) Governor Barbour’s FY11 (2010-2011) Budget Recommendation The Parents’ Campaign’s Response to Governor Barbour’s FY11 Budget Recommendation Governor Barbour’s Revised FY11 Budget January 2010 Budget Cuts

Governor Barbour has indicated recently that he intends to cut state agency budgets to address the state’s revenue shortfall and that he is likely to start with K-12 education.  We at The Parents’ Campaign believe cutting school budgets first would be bad policy for a number of reasons, and we urge Governor Barbour to take

Governor Barbour yesterday submitted to the Mississippi Legislature his budget recommendations for the 2009 fiscal year.  His budget reflects the cautionary approach to spending he urged legislators to employ in anticipation of low revenue collections. The governor’s budget calls for a $2.5-million increase over current year funding to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program. 

In August of 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Education Jobs bill which generated $98-million for Mississippi schools.  The purpose of the bill was to supplement state education funding, which had been cut dramatically in most states due to the recession. Education Jobs funding flows directly to school districts on a reimbursment basis and

Federal Stabilization Funds are federal dollars that were appropriated to states as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  Some of these dollars flowed to school districts in the way of competitive grants, but the largest part of the Stabilization Fund flowed to states to help them maintain the higher of

The Mississippi Department of Education and the State Board of Education presented to the Legislative Budget Committee K-12 education’s budget request for the coming fiscal year.  Each year, the Legislative Budget Committee is tasked with crafting a budget recommendation to be used as the baseline for the legislative budget negotiations that take place during the legislative session.

On Tuesday, August 31st, Governor Barbour issued a statement saying that the leadership of the House and Senate had agreed with him not to send to school districts the $82-million that had been promised them in HB1059.  The money was contingent upon action by the U.S. Congress to give states Medicaid funding relief.  Congress did its

Governor Barbour issued a statement this afternoon indicating that the leadership of both the House and Senate have agreed to carry forward to the next fiscal year, FY2012, the approximately $130-million in state funding that state leaders have estimated will be freed up by the FMAP legislation recently passed by the U.S. Congress.  The Mississippi Legislature passed

Today Governor Barbour presented his revised budget recommendation for Fiscal Year 2011, the coming fiscal year.  He is recommending that the Legislature reduce significantly the funding levels for K-12 education, asking that the House and Senate strip over $160-million from the level of funding that they adopted for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) just before adjourning