Tuesday, April 9, 2024

MAEP Food Fight!

 The House & Senate are squaring off over the MAEP formula.  

Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement: 

The Mississippi Senate proposed legislation which would provide an additional $206 million to schools across the state and $50 million for pay raises for teachers.

 

The Senate is also committed to raising community college and university personnel pay by an estimated $50 million. 

 

The legislation directs the Department of Education to study two new funding formulas proposed during the 2024 Legislative Session, a revamp of the current formula proposed by the Senate and a new formula proposed by the House. The Department would be required to provide a recommendation to the Legislature on how to fund schools by October 1, 2024. School districts would be required to spend 90 percent of state funds on teachers, students, and classroom needs rather than administrative personnel.

 

“We are not married to the current formula. We do, however, believe any appropriation as significant as that which funds our school systems should be vetted and discussed with stakeholders including parents, educators, and the public at-large,” Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann said. “Studying the issue together, in connection with the Department of Education and our new Superintendent, will hopefully result in a new, long-term sustainable formula both chambers can agree on which is good for students and schools.”

 

House Bill 1823 is the education appropriations bill which includes the additional $206 million toward education. If adopted, the historic appropriation would almost fully fund the current funding formula, which is about $251 million.

 

House Bill 765, which is expected to be considered on the floor this afternoon, makes the technical changes required for the K-12 raise, which would result in a $1,000 pay raise for every teacher in the state. With the raise, teachers with a bachelor’s degree would start in Mississippi at $42,500. 

 

The community college and university raises, if agreed upon, would be added to Senate Bill 3016 (community colleges) and Senate Bills 3006-3014 (Institutions of Higher Learning), which are pending in the House. 

For more information about Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann, visit www.ltgovhosemann.ms.gov.

Speaker of the House Jason White had something to say as well: 


 Today, the Senate took an active role to deny an increase of more than $250 million to Mississippi’s K-12 public education system. The House has been willing and open to work with the Senate on their suggestions to move away from the archaic MAEP formula and build a formula that is equitable, fair, and student-centered. 

The Senate took the extraordinary and unusual step to kill the INSPIRE Act funding formula prematurely in addition to killing their own attempt to rectify the issues with MAEP. Mississippi’s public school children will be directly impacted by the Senate’s lack of willingness to engage in the debate to address the current broken and flawed formula. By refusing to have meaningful discussion on this issue and enter into the Conference phase of the legislative process, the Senate has moved to preserve the status quo which will result in less funds to public schools and inadequate distribution in an unfair and inequitable manner. 

As Speaker of the House, I have clearly communicated with Senate leadership the House position that we have funded MAEP for the last time. As we near the end of the legislative session, the House will continue to look for ways to fund education with a student-centered formula.  

 

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

$1000.00 pay raise? Per year? Laughable...

Anonymous said...

Cutting the administrators' and superintendents' pay and passing the savings to the teachers and schools would get better results.

Anonymous said...

When you chose to be a teacher you know what it pays. LIVE WITH IT. Do you really believe throwing cash at the education bureaucracy helps students study and learn? Ha! It's only bullshit and vote buying.

Anonymous said...

"School districts would be required to spend 90 percent of state funds on teachers, students, and classroom needs rather than administrative personnel."

So after paying teachers and purchasing "classroom needs," what money is going to "students," and why? Are they proposing to pay students?

Anonymous said...

My money is on Gov. Hosemann to win this fight.

Anonymous said...

I never thought I’d see the day the Mississippi House and Senate would be in a fight over who is going to give K12 more money. Wow.

Anonymous said...

Are there teachers who’d say, “What? $1,000 more a year? Now I’m going to get back in there and REALLY teach these “scholars.”

When the legislature can fund brain transplants for “scholars,” that’ll be money well-appropriated and well-spent. But until that day, Mississippi doesn’t have educable children in quantity enough to justify its funding. American education is simply government-sponsored daycare and a massive jobs program.

Anonymous said...

I refuse to concern myself with any of this funding nonsense until there is fundamental changes to our redundant and bloated admin heavy current system.

And we all know, we wont ever consolidate districts or do the real world things that are needed.

Just beg for more money for the chirren' and demonize any naysayer.

Anonymous said...

No, 9:01, more likely what it might mean is fewer teachers holding down two jobs while scrapping to pay increased insurance costs.

"With the raise, teachers with a bachelor’s degree would start in Mississippi at $42,500."

My wife, with a master's degree and special ed certification recently retired. I just showed her the above quote. She shook her head and said, "Lord, it took me thirty years to make $42,500.

Most teachers are dedicated and do the best they can to develop students. What can't be changed, though, is the knuckle-heads out there, who, like 9:01 think teachers are the same as Department of Corrections guards.

Anonymous said...

Why should we pay more money when they do not do the job we now pay them to do now? Hosw about we do like most businesses do and pay according to how well you do your job? If the students keep failing and we have to lower the qualifications for graduation why not take a good look at the quality of teachers. Everyone who has gone to college knows when you fail at everything else you can become a teacher.

Anonymous said...

Third world state, third world education system.

Anonymous said...

What can't be changed, @9:35 AM, are the brains of the students. So teaching done by only the most dedicated and spending all the money in the world on students who don't want to learn -- if they even can learn -- is an utter waste.

What are we going to do with these ineducable scholars once AI does all the repetitive jobs that they once did? Are we going to pay them to have a heartbeat and stay in their neighborhoods, away from our four-wheelers, power tools, and the guns we leave in our cars parked in the driveway? It's a serious question.

Anonymous said...

"Third world state, third world education system"

That should be third world nation, third world education system. The national education system as a whole has faltered greatly in the last 50 years. Remember, we are getting the outcome from education that is desired, or else wholesale changes would be made. We can't have the citizens too smart, they may revolt.

Anonymous said...

Teachers:

We want raises.

Teachers when the wind blows:

CLOSE THE SCHOOLS !!

Anonymous said...

Pay y’all’s taxes, it for the chilren! After we take our 90% cut off the top of course!

Anonymous said...

Since our state is at the bottom of the list according to the accomplishments of the school, shouldn't our teacher also be at the bottom of the list according to pay?


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