Superintendents from across the state are visiting the Legislature this week with a message: Please support fully funding our schools.
by Julia James, Mississippi Today March 23, 2023 Senate leaders introduced a plan earlier this month to give an additional $181 million to public schools by slightly modifying the state’s public school funding formula, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program or MAEP, and fully funding the new version. The funding formula was established by the Legislature in 1997 and has been consistently underfunded every year since 2008.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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