The Mississippi Legislature has passed a new K-12 education funding formula, sending the bill to the governor's desk and replacing a funding model that has been in place since the 1990s.
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mississippi House Education Committee vice chairman Rep. Kent McCarty, R-Hattiesburg, right, reviews notes ...
The additional funding will bring the education budget to $2.94 billion – about $50 million less than MAEP would have ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mississippi State Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Dennis DeBar, R-Leakesville, presents a bill ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to ...
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 ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to ...