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Full Senate Passes $1,000 Teacher Pay Raise, Increase in MAEP Funding

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This morning, the full Senate passed its version of the public school appropriation bill, which provides a $206-million increase in MAEP funding and a $1,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise. The total increase over current year funding is $256-million, almost identical to the increase proposed by the House. It is wonderful that both chambers want to […]

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Senate Includes Teacher Pay Raise in Substantial School Funding Increase

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Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee amended the education appropriations bill to provide a $256-million increase to public schools over current-year MAEP funding, essentially the same increase that the House proposed, though $50-million of the funding in the Senate plan would go toward a $1,000 across-the-board pay raise for teachers. The pay raise would help teachers

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Education Bills That Survived Today’s Committee Deadline

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HB 1988, the Children’s Promise Act bill that provides a massive increase in tax credits benefiting private schools, has passed the House but has not passed a Senate committee. Please ASK SENATORS TO AMEND THE BILL TO HAVE THESE TAX CREDITS BENEFIT ONLY ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. The bill could be taken up in

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Private School Funding Moves Forward – Please Call

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Yesterday the House tabled the motion to reconsider on HB 1988, the Children’s Promise Act, sending to the Senate the bill that provides a massive increase in private school tax credits. The bill would allow an individual private school to receive up to $720,000 annually at taxpayer expense, regardless of the school’s size or enrollment,

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House Votes to Send Public Money to Private Schools

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Today, the Mississippi House of Representatives voted to send millions more in state tax dollars to private schools. The funding flows by way of dollar-for-dollar tax credits for donations to private schools.* This is the mechanism for funneling state funding to private schools that is preferred by Mississippi’s private school association, which fears that accountability

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