Privatization

I can’t thank you enough for your terrific work to push back against the voucher lobby that has been working nonstop to dismantle our public schools. Your steadfast support of our children, our public schools, and the legislators who stand with them has been critical in our fight to ensure that every Mississippi child has […]

The Mississippi House and Senate have completed their work in the 2026 Legislative Session and adjourned – for now. Earlier in the week, both chambers adopted HCR 64, which extended the session until April 15 to give them some breathing room on some looming conference report deadlines. The resolution states that they will reconvene in

The Legislature has finalized the teacher pay raise, the adolescent literacy initiative, and the Math Act, all of which were funded in the conference report for the P-12 appropriations bill, HB 1935. That conference report includes funding for: A $2,000 across-the-board pay raise for certified teachers An additional $2,000 salary supplement for special education teachers who are teaching

The conference report for HB 1944, the Children’s Promise Act bill, adds the $6-million in tax credits for nonpublic special purpose schools that we told you about last week. Special purpose schools are private schools that serve students with a special need or learning disability.  These special purpose schools typically have fewer than 100 students and

This morning, the House and Senate invited conference on the two remaining teacher pay raise bills, HB 1395 and SB 2103. This is wonderful news and an indication that legislators are working together to craft a desperately-needed pay raise for our deserving public school teachers! Please reach out to your legislators right away and urge

Today, the Senate passed HB 1944, the Children’s Promise Act bill, moving forward the version of the bill passed in committee yesterday. The bill as it passed the Senate keeps in place the $18-million in tax credits currently split between foster care organizations and private schools ($9-million to each of those sectors) and adds another

This afternoon the Senate Finance Committee moved forward two bills that include the Children’s Promise Act language, the law that sends millions in state funding to private schools. The committee passed an amended version of HB 1944, creating an additional $6-million category of tax credits for special purpose schools, nonpublic schools that serve only children with some special

Similar to the shenanigans in the 2025 Legislative Session, we are finding the Children’s Promise Act (private school funding) inserted in multiple bills. Public school supporters in both the House and Senate are aware and are helping us watch for the language popping up in random legislation. Shout-out to Rep. Willie Bailey of Greenville, who caught