MS Legislature

The House and Senate have dealt with the majority of legislation and expect to complete their work and adjourn the session tomorrow. The House adjourned earlier this afternoon, and the Senate wrapped up for the day just now. Among the bills that have not yet been finalized is the PreK-12 funding bill. There is lots of talk […]

Apparently, legislators aren’t hearing us. Let’s say it a little louder… You have 4 billion of our dollars in your bank account. We want our schools fully funded! After failing to come to an agreement on the school funding bill by tonight’s 6:00 deadline, House and Senate leaders announced that they intend to pass resolutions

With an extra $1-billion to spend, the willingness – or unwillingness – of legislators to invest fully in our children’s futures will tell us where they really stand in their commitment to our public schools. School leaders are at their wits’ end as they look for any extra room in their chronically underfunded budgets to

The next four days are critical. By Monday, we should know whether our legislators, with piles of our tax dollars already in the bank and an extra $1-billion coming in annually, have made good on their promise to provide our students and teachers the resources they need to succeed. Monday is the deadline for the final

Legislators have less than a week to make good on their promise to our children. For years, they have told us they would fully fund our public schools if the money were available to do so. That time has come! The Legislature has an extra $1-billion in recurring revenue to spend this legislative session – that’s

It has become routine for the Legislature to intentionally lowball the coming year’s revenue estimate, then claim they don’t have enough money to fully fund public schools and other state services. It’s up to you and me to make sure that trick isn’t played again this year, when we all know that Mississippi is floating

TODAY, public education supporters across Mississippi will lift our voices to send the message that we want our public schools fully funded.  Your call is critical. Let’s get hundreds of phone calls to the Capitol in support of full funding. Please ask at least five of your friends to join our CALL THE CAPITOL DAY.   TODAY,

TOMORROW, public education supporters across Mississippi will lift our voices to send the message that we want our public schools fully funded.  Your call tomorrow is critical. We need hundreds of calls flooding the Capitol in support of full funding. Please help us spread the word – share House members’ phone numbers and ask at least

Today, the Senate passed unanimously (see vote) the preK-12 appropriation bill, fully funding the adjusted MAEP formula and increasing funding to public schools by $181.1-million.  Please join us in thanking Chairmen DeBar and Hopson, Lt. Gov. Hosemann, and our senators for their commitment to public schools! The Senate also passed unanimously HB 1369, which they amended

In a joint meeting of the Senate Education and Appropriations Committees, Chairmen DeBar and Hopson unveiled a Senate proposal to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). The plan includes fairly minor technical adjustments to the school funding formula that are intended to make full funding more sustainable over time and strengthen school funding for