The House of Representatives has passed unanimously a $5,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise and an additional $3,000 increase for special education teachers who are teaching in the special education field in a public school. See the vote. Included in that bill (HB 1126) are numerous provisions unrelated to teacher salaries, provisions we believe should be dealt with in […]
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This afternoon, the House Education and Appropriations Committees passed HB 1126, calling for a $5,000 across-the-board teacher pay raise and an additional $3,000 increase for special education teachers who are teaching in the special education field in a public school. HB 1126 now will go to the full House for a vote. In other big news, the Senate
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We need your help with a variety of bills awaiting votes in the House and Senate – some good and some very bad. Please reach out to your legislators right away about the following bills. Bills awaiting House votes:HB 1234 – School accountability dashboard – Creates new accountability “dashboards” on which public schools would be required
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Last Thursday, the Senate Education Committee passed a number of bills, two of which we are following closely: SB 2487 – provides an expansion of Mississippi’s literacy initiative into the middle grades, an issue that has been on The Parents’ Campaign’s legislative priorities list for several years. The committee substitute for SB 2487, the amended version of
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In less than three weeks the Mississippi Legislature will convene the 2026 Legislative Session, one that promises to be extremely consequential for every Mississippi child and community. We need your help to ensure that this session is a win for our children, our public schools, and our communities. The remarkable work being done in Mississippi’s
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The Mississippi Board of Education recently adopted new, higher performance cut scores – the scores that determine whether a school or district is rated A, B, C, D, or F. The change comes on the heels of nationally recognized achievement gains in our state’s public schools. “As Mississippi continues our educational marathon, we need to keep
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The 2026 Legislative Session is just weeks away – and it will be one of monumental importance. Will our legislators step up with a pay raise sufficient to stem the teacher shortage that is threatening Mississippi’s remarkable academic achievements? Or will they push through “school choice” legislation, creating two separate and unequal education systems –
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As I count my blessings in this season of thanks, you are right there among them! I will forever be grateful for all the ways that you – and many thousands of other Mississippians like you – are bringing us closer every day to fulfilling the vision of The Parents’ Campaign: strong public schools for
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has announced school and district accountability ratings based on assessment results for the 2024-2025 school year. Despite continued improvement on national assessments, these results showed a slight dip in performance on state assessments, particularly in math, driving a decrease in the number of districts rated C or better and
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House Speaker Jason White has named a Select Committee on “Education Freedom” to help him decide the details of his voucher agenda. The committee will hold its first meeting on Monday (August 25) at 1:00 in Room 113 of the Capitol. Speaker White’s staff informed us that this meeting will not provide an opportunity for public comment.
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