We’re almost there! Saturday is the deadline for conference reports on appropriations and revenue bills to be filed, including the school funding bill and those that now include Children’s Promise Act tax-credit voucher language (HB 1894, SB 3126, SB 3165, SB 3167). We are watching those closely. In the meantime, please continue to ask your legislators to […]
The next 10 days will be among the most critical of this legislative session, and we will need to be on high alert as close to 200 bills come out of conference. We will be watching for the PreK-12 funding bill, with expectations that the Mississippi Student Funding Formula will again be fully funded. We
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Two major occurrences last week could have significant impacts on public education. Time will tell. On Thursday afternoon, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. Only Congress can abolish a state agency it created, but much of the USDE staff already has been put on leave, and numerous education-related
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HB 1902, a Children’s Promise Act voucher bill to fund private schools, is dead. You reached out, and our senators delivered. It’s time to let them know how grateful we are. Legislators take a lot of heat, and we are quick to let them know when we disapprove of a vote. It’s just as important
Keep those calls and texts going – your senators need your support to stand strong against a well-funded and persistent voucher lobby! As we reported yesterday, HB 1902, a Children’s Promise Act voucher bill to fund private schools, was defeated in the Senate (see that vote), but it was held on a motion to reconsider,
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Today, the Mississippi Senate defeated HB 1902, the Children’s Promise Act legislation so many of you called your senators about last night and this morning. See that vote. However, the bill was held on a motion to reconsider, which means it is likely there will be another vote on it, as early as tomorrow. Please reach back
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This afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee advanced HB 1902, the Children’s Promise Act legislation, moving it forward for a Senate floor vote. Though the committee amended the bill to remove the increase in funding flowing to private schools, having the code sections alive leaves it vulnerable to more increases in conference. We want that bill to die. The Children’s
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Please join us in thanking our friends in the Mississippi House for rejecting the final remaining public school choice measure. SB 2618, a school attendance officer bill, had been amended in the House Education Committee to include choice/portability language. The bill died on today’s deadline when Chairman Roberson declined to take it up for a
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With the final legislative deadlines looming, our children are counting on us to keeping pushing until the very end to ensure that our public school supporters in the Legislature have the backing they need to defeat the voucher lobby. Just a few measures remain that need our attention. SB 2618 is the school attendance officer bill
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Mississippi has lost an icon and a staunch advocate for public education with the passing of former Speaker Pro Tempore Robert Clark, Jr., at the age of 96. Speaker Pro Tem Clark was a teacher, a coach, a civil rights activist, and the first Black legislator elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction. First elected to the
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