Mississippi teachers saw an historic pay raise in 2022, but insurance costs, inflation have eaten away at it and surrounding states have raised their teacher pay.
‘School choice,’ education funding and teacher pay among education issues lawmakers will address by Simeon Gates, Mississippi Today December 12, 2024 School choice – including using tax dollars to pay for private schools – education funding and teacher pay promise to be among the top issues lawmakers discuss in the 2025 legislative session that starts in January.
New superintendent: Private schools receiving public money should be held to public education standards Carswell said Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and some Republican legislators have blocked expansion of school choice in Mississippi. He believes that President-Elect Donald Trump’s education policies would influence anti-school choice Republicans to fall in line.
is a weighted and objective funding formula that provides per-student funding. It determines this based on a district’s total enrollment and a base student amount. Weights are added for students who fit certain categories, such as gifted students and English language-learners.
formula, which required an increase in public education spending of about $230 million, bringing the total for the year up to nearly $3 billion. It's estimated fully funding the new formula again in 2025 would require an increase of about $50 million. “I anticipate that we will fully fund the formula next session,” said Sen. DeBar.
Lawmakers send MAEP education funding formula rewrite to governor Erica Jones, executive director of the Mississippi Association of Educators, said the group will be monitoring to ensure that public schools are fully funded. “We want to continue to work with our legislators to ensure that the public schools here in Mississippi continue to have the funds to be successful," she said.
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