MS Legislature

Our superheroes came through for Mississippi children again! The K-12 appropriation conference report has been filed, and the news is good. Overall, the FY2019 (2018-2019 school year) appropriation for pre-k through grade 12 is up by $12.8-million over funding for the current year. While the final agreement doesn’t include all that we asked for, it does have these […]

Conferees have not come to an agreement on the K-12 funding bill, and so a “dummy” bill (a placeholder bill with all zeros) was filed to meet tonight’s 8pm deadline. A conference report with the actual numbers will be filed once an agreement is reached. The hang-up appears to be over whether or not to provide a slight

School funding for the 2018-2019 year will be decided in the next few days; your legislators need to hear from you. We have reason to believe that there is strong support in both the House and Senate for improving funding for public schools. After all, our Senate defeated every privatization bill that came its way

In February, the House of Representatives passed its version of the K-12 appropriation bill, which provided an increase of $8.2-million over current-year funding for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). Two weeks later, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves implied that the appropriation for public schools likely would be reduced, seemingly in retaliation for the defeat of HB 957,

Legislators in both parties are speculating that the leadership will hold the appropriations, transportation, and bond bills in conference and use them as leverage to flip enough votes to pass HB 957, threatening to kill important projects in districts of legislators who don’t agree to support this dreadful bill and offering sweetheart deals to those

Word at the Capitol is that there is a move afoot to resurrect HB 957 and pass it in a special session. Sources tell us that Lt. Gov. Reeves is applying tremendous pressure to senators in an effort to flip the votes of our “HERO” legislators who voted to kill the bill. Legislative leaders apparently are so

WOW! Your State Senate came through for Mississippi children in a big way today! House Bill 957 is dead. During debate, Sen. Hob Bryan made a motion to recommit the bill to committee, essentially a motion to kill the bill since the committee deadline had already passed. The motion prevailed on a vote of 27-21. Please BE SURE

The latest revelation about the devastating nature of HB 957 is that it will slash funding for children with special needs. HB 957 would send 102 school districts even LESS special education funding than they got this year. The leadership wants you to believe that this bill is good for students. How could it possibly be

It’s now or never, friend! It’s time for moms, dads, and educators to stand up, speak out, and let our legislators know that we will not stand by while they devastate our public schools. HB 957, the bill that changes the school funding law to slash funding by $292-million or more, passed out of the education committee

The Senate version of HB 957 indicates that the intent of the Legislature is to withhold nearly $100-million in Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding that has historically been appropriated outside of the MAEP formula. This loss will be in addition to the dramatic loss of $292-million, also caused by HB 957, which we reported earlier. Though the Senate version of HB 957