The House passed a bill that would rewrite Mississippi's funding formula that determines how much state funding to spend on public schools.
House passes bill that would change how public schools are funded by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today March 6, 2024 For the first time since 1953, Mississippi would not rely on an objective funding formula to determine the amount of money local schools needed under legislation that overwhelmingly passed the House by an 95-13 margin on Wednesday.
defines the base student cost as the amount of money spent in an efficiently run “adequate” school district to educate a child. Districts receive their base student cost times their average attendance. And an important caveat in . “We have a bill that puts more of an emphasis on equity than anything you have ever seen,” said House Education Chair Rob Roberson, R-Starkville, who is the primary author of the legislation. Under the bill, there would be a base student cost — $6,650 — which is about $800 less than
has been fully funded only twice since 2003, and McCarty said there is no appetite by House leaders to fully fund
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