The state Senate on Friday with no debate unanimously passed a $210-million teacher pay raise, but the entire Black Caucus did not vote because its members walked out in protest of a critical race theory bill passed earlier.
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today January 21, 2022 Senate Bill 2444 would provide an average teacher salary increase of $4,700 over two years and restructure the way teachers are paid to provide higher salaries in the long term. With the state budget flush largely from federal government pandemic spending, the state Senate and House now have competing teacher pay raise bills.
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