This afternoon, the Senate amended HB 1395 to include another teacher pay raise, this one a $6,000 total raise spread over three years for certified teachers (a $2,000 increase in each year). Special education teachers who are teaching special education in a public school would get an additional $3,000 spread over those same three years ($9,000 […]
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Today was the deadline for House bills to pass Senate committees and for Senate bills to pass House committees. Very few of the bills we are following made it out alive. This feels like a repeat of last year’s session, in which the House killed the Senate bills and the Senate killed the House bills. BUT, there
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Today was the deadline for bills to pass the chamber in which the bill originated. See below the fate of the bills we are following. BILLS WE OPPOSE – Ask legislators to VOTE NO HB 1234 – School accountability dashboard – Creates enormous, unnecessary, and costly administrative tasks for public schools, mandating new accountability “dashboards” on which
Some Harmful, Some Helpful Education Bills – Please Call Read More »
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
Teacher Pay Raise Passes Full House Read More »
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
Literacy, Math Bills Pass Senate Education Committee Read More »
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
The Team That Delivers: Team PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Read More »
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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