The full Senate has passed SB 2858, a tax cut bill that would reduce state revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars per year, phased in over 15 years. Estimates of the impact of the tax cut range from $575-million to $896-million. See your senator’s vote on the tax cut bill here. Please thanks the senators who […]
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The House of Representatives passed the school funding bill today. HB 1643 provides no increase in the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), under-funding schools by $172-million, and cuts the overall K-12 budget by about $7.6-million. Nearly every state agency has its funding reduced in this budget, due to revenue shortfalls caused by years of corporate tax cuts. Each appropriation bill
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This week we will get our first look at how legislators will respond to last November’s clarion call for adequate funding for our children’s schools. Hundreds of thousands of Mississippians will be watching closely. The House Appropriations Committee will meet tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.; the deadline for the House floor vote on school funding is next Wednesday.
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House Bill 33 amends the existing special education voucher law to expand the time period in which a student can have had an active Individualized Education Program (IEP) from 18 months to five years to be eligible for a voucher. A troublesome development with this bill occured when Education Chairman John Moore proposed an amendment adding a reverse
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While many disastrous education bills have died and others will be battled in the next stage of the process, two harmful bills remain on the current calendar. Please continue to have conversations with your legislators about these bills: SB 2161, the Senate charter school bill, is on the Senate “Motion to Reconsider” calendar, so senators could
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Thanks for your great work! SB 2161, the Senate charter school bill, has been held on a motion to reconsider, so senators could have another chance to vote on this bill tomorrow. The bill allows charter schools to locate in school districts rated C without local board approval and allows students in any part of the
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Two detrimental bills that passed the House today could be overturned with your help. House Bills 47 and 29 were held on motions to reconsider, which means that they could be brought back to the floor for a re-vote. Please ask your representative to vote to RECONSIDER HB 47 and HB 29 and then to VOTE
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As of this morning, the House of Representatives is passing laws without debate, allowing no questions and no answers before voting on bills that affect the lives of Mississippians. Though members who are familiar with the bills may speak for or against a measure, many laws will likely be passed with legislators having little knowledge
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Thank you to all those who called and emailed Speaker Gunn and your representatives to insist that they do the work we elected them to do: carefully consider, vet, and debate all legislation, particularly bills that affect the quality of education provided our children. The Speaker and key legislators have been meeting since mid-morning, with
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The very good news this evening is that most of the voucher bills are dead! HB 943, the voucher bill that passed the Education Committee, was also referred to the House Appropriations Committee, where Chairman Frierson allowed it to die on the calendar. Likewise, Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison allowed the Senate voucher bill to
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