DCentral PSC Cecil Brown: Think carefully before changing MAEP
Mississippi legislative leaders recently announced they have hired EdBuild, a New Jersey-based education consulting firm, to review the state’s public education funding formula, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program. A review of the formula is appropriate and timely. In fact, every public program should be reviewed periodically for efficiency, effectiveness and need.
However, the fear among many public education supporters that the legislative leadership will use this opportunity to reduce education funding and increase the number of charter schools and school voucher programs is not without merit….
…For that reason, if we are going to modify the education funding formula in any substantive way, the message to the decision makers should be simple: Don’t screw it up.
Clarion Ledger
10/21/16
Magnolia Tribune
