Gov. Tate Reeves, while in office, has blocked fully funding Mississippi public education formula. But in 2011, he actually advocated for it.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today October 29, 2023 The views of the candidates for governor — Republican incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves and Democratic challenger Brandon Presley — are as different as night and day on fully funding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which provides the state’s share of the basics to operate local schools.
funding formula."Whatever the mechanism is to get more money in the classroom, that’s what I’m going to support." But when the state Senate earlier this year introduced legislation that could have been a vehicle to address some of the problems that Reeves claimed existed within the funding formula, the governor opposed those efforts.
funding formula ensures an adequate level of funding, if fully funded, instead of leaving it to legislative leaders to fund education at any level they deem appropriate. Reeves also was a leader in 2015 of the successful effort to defeat ballot Initiative 42, which would have strengthened the state’s commitment to public education in the Mississippi Constitution making it more difficult for lawmakers to not fully fund the Adequate Education Program.
, despite state surplus funds of about $4 billion going into the 2023 session alone. In his first year as lieutenant governor after stating his goal to fully fund
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