What a year this has been! I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have you on our team, standing in the gap for our children and our public schools. You have made all the difference. The 2025 Legislative Session will begin on Tuesday, January 7, and it promises to be a doozy! We […]
2024 Priority Bills Each year, The Parents’ Campaign closely monitors and takes a position on several education bills. Priority bills for the 2024 Legislative Session are shown below. LAW HB 765 – Extend Repealer on MS Critical Teacher Shortage Act House Bill 765 – extends repeal date on Mississippi Critical Teacher Shortage Act from July
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2025 Legislative Priorities An excellent early education experience for every child Expanded access to state-funded pre-k programs increase the early childhood education appropriation for FY2025 (ELCs and public pre-k) An excellent teacher in every classroom Teacher shortage – codify a plan to address Mississippi’s critical teacher shortage, which may include, but is not limited to:
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Mississippi’s public school districts will be fully funded for the 2024-2025 school year – the first time in 16 years that public schools will receive what state law requires! See your district’s funding. Notably, the new Mississippi Student Funding Formula (MSFF) calls for funding each district based on net enrollment rather than average daily attendance, something
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In a 7-2 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court avoided ruling on the constitutionality of public funds going to private schools. A majority of justices opined that Parents for Public Schools (PPS) failed to show that public schools suffered any harm due to the Legislature’s 2022 appropriation of $10-million in federal pandemic funds for private school infrastructure
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! For thousands of calls, texts, emails, and meetings. For early mornings and late nights. For social media posts and mobilizing family and friends. For standing in the gap for public school children and teachers. You made a difference. And our children, teachers, and public schools will be the beneficiaries.
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We are almost to the finish line, and most of the measures for which you have advocated have passed the House and Senate, including the conference report for the education appropriation bill (see below). However, we need your continued vigilance on HB 1988 – the Children’s Promise Act, which provides millions of dollars in subsidies
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Today, the Senate passed HB 4130, creating the Mississippi Student Funding Formula to replace the MAEP as Mississippi’s school funding law. The bill now will go to the governor for his signature. The Senate released a projection showing how each district fares under the new plan. See it here. Senate Education Chair Dennis DeBar explained that the bill
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Thank you for your calls on school funding! The House and Senate have come to an agreement on the school funding law that we believe is a good compromise. It includes an objective formula that has components similar to the MAEP as well as increased needs-based funding similar to that proposed by the House. This afternoon,
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The Senate has passed a resolution suspending deadlines to allow the introduction of a bill to create a new school funding law. SCR 548 calls for a funding law that includes key elements outlined in a letter that education associations sent to legislative leaders in February: an objective formula for determining the base student cost
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