The public school choice, ESA voucher and charter school expansion, consolidation, and “Tim Tebow” bills that passed the House have been referred to the Senate Education Committee. More detailed explanations are below. Please reach out to members of the Senate Education Committee and ask them to vote NO on HB 1078, HB 1431, HB 1432, HB 1435, and […]
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HB 1433 is dead! Many thanks to members of the House who stood up for our public schools and their constituents to defeat this harmful legislation that allowed public and private school choice/vouchers. And many thanks to the thousands of moms, dads, grandparents, educators, and concerned citizens who reached out to your legislators about your
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A proposed amendment to the MSFF, the new school funding law, would reduce funding to public schools by millions of dollars. When the law was drafted, it changed the student count on which school funding is based from average daily attendance to net enrollment, and the definition for net enrollment included all students enrolled in
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Please keep calling your representatives, urging them to vote NO on harmful “school choice” bills. There is some good news. Special thanks is due Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar and Senate Education Committee members for standing up for our public schools. Twice in two days they declined to move forward harmful “choice” bills. A number
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Your calls to legislators apparently are working so well that House leadership doesn’t dare count actual votes in committee. House Education Chair Rob Roberson acknowledged in today’s committee meeting that representatives had received “millions of phone calls and texts” from constituents opposed to HB 1433 (public and private school choice), but he urged committee members
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The House Education Committee will meet at 1:00 p.m. today and could take up several bills expanding school choice, including: HB 1433, which provides for public and private school “choice” HB 1078, a bill removing provisions passed in the 2024 session that tightened up the ESA voucher statute and allowing an unnamed nonprofit to receive
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ALERT: This afternoon, the House Education Committee passed two bills that could threaten the wonderful progress being made in our public schools. HB 1617 allows homeschool students to participate in public school activities, creating an unlevel playing field for students and an enormous administrative burden for public schools – and incentivizing dropouts. Public school students
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Wow, Mississippi!! Our public school students knocked it out of the park on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), scoring higher than students in 41 other states in grade 4 reading! The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) reports these extraordinary rankings for Mississippi students compared to students in all states (plus Department of
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The 2025 Legislative Session is in full swing and committees are beginning to meet. As predicted, a number of voucher/”choice” bills have been introduced and are generating some buzz at the Capitol. Word is that the “choice” bill most likely to get traction is HB 1433 – a voucher AND public school choice bill. Please ask
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HB 1, which passed the House Ways and Means Committee late yesterday, would slash over $1-billion in revenue from our state budget. It also would reduce the amount of lottery money going to the Education Enhancement Fund, which has been used to pay for pre-k and teacher supplies. Meanwhile, state revenue is shrinking on its
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