With the final legislative deadlines looming, our children are counting on us to keeping pushing until the very end to ensure that our public school supporters in the Legislature have the backing they need to defeat the voucher lobby. Just a few measures remain that need our attention. SB 2618 is the school attendance officer bill […]
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Today, your senators stood with you for strong public schools for ALL Mississippi children! The Senate Education Committee declined to take up the school choice bills – House bills 1078 (expands ESA vouchers), 1432 (charter school expansion), 1435 (public school choice), and 1617 (“Tim Tebow” – homeschoolers participate in public school activities) as well as
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Thank you for your calls to the House on the Children’s Promise Act bills (HB 1902 and HB 1903), which would increase dramatically the tax dollars being diverted to fund private schools. Unfortunately, both passed the House and are headed to the Senate. See the House votes: HB 1902 HB 1903 All “school choice” and
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Two bills that would increase dramatically the public money going to private schools are being rammed through the Mississippi House of Representatives at lightning speed. HB 1902 and HB 1903 both increase the tax dollars benefiting private schools through a program dubbed the “Children’s Promise Act.” Both bills appeared online for the first time this
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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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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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Voucher pushers can’t seem to get their story straight. It began decades ago when the first wave of state-funded private school vouchers came in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education that public schools must integrate. Segregationists made no bones about the fact that “tuition grants” (vouchers) provided
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Voucher pushers want you to believe that diverting state funds to private schools will create choices for children who don’t currently have them. The data tell us otherwise. In state after state that has implemented voucher programs, the result has been the same: overwhelmingly, vouchers have gone to parents who already were sending their children to
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In a 7-2 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court avoided ruling on the constitutionality of public funds going to private schools. A majority of justices opined that Parents for Public Schools (PPS) failed to show that public schools suffered any harm due to the Legislature’s 2022 appropriation of $10-million in federal pandemic funds for private school infrastructure
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