BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi would ditch a complex school funding formula that legislators have largely ignored since it became law a generation ago and replace it with a new plan that some lawmakers say is simpler…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to set a new formula to calculate how much money the state will spend on public schools — a step toward abandoning a formula that has put generations…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi senators voted Tuesday to revise the state’s education budget formula that has been in law since 1997 but has been fully funded only two years. The bill passed without debate, but it is unclear whether…
According to the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor, preliminary calculations by Mississippi Department of Education underfunded the MAEP formula by more than $732,000. In a letter addressed to legislative leaders and Governor Phil Bryant, State Auditor Stacey Pickering outlined…
As the school year comes to a close, administrators are already looking toward next year, but more money is not something they’ll take into account when creating a budget. After a failed Initiative 42 brought much attention to fully funding…
Major changes to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program could be made in these last few weeks of the 2016 legislative session even though those changes have not yet been discussed in the Education Committees or on the floor in either…
In November you will be asked to vote on two education funding ballot initiatives.
What happens if Initiative 42 passes and the state is required to fully fund MAEP?
The Mississippi Adequate Education Program has been fully funded twice, outraging education advocates who believe schools are underfunded in our state.
It was a long session today for Mississippi superintendents at this month’s state Board of Education meeting.