School Funding

Prior to the “Great Recession,” support among legislators for adequate school funding was strong. The Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) formula, passed into law in 1997 and phased in over a number of years, was fully funded for the first time in 2003. Four years later, bolstered by strong constituent support, Governor Haley Barbour, in […]

Our children’s education is, once again, at the bottom of the priority list for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC). That committee has announced its budget recommendation for Fiscal Year 2015, the budget that will be debated in the 2014 Legislative Session. Despite an end-of-year budget surplus of $295-million and increases in state revenue for four