The Mississippi Senate voted to approve of a new K-12 education funding formula, erasing a decades-old process.
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.
A new school funding formula has been approved by the Legislature that, like the long-standing Mississippi Adequate Education Program, will rely on an objective mechanism to determine how much ...
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 ...
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 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 ...