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November 28, 2016

PENDER: #msleg unlikely to be a “do-nothing” session in 2017

GEOFF PENDER: Lawmakers have an ambitious agenda for ’17 session If the 2017 Mississippi Legislature tackles even a third of what it has set on its agenda thus far, no one should be able to label it a “do-nothing” session this go-’round. Legislative leaders have vowed to overhaul and reform the state’s tax system. Ditto…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 28, 2016

#msleg 2017 session the death knell for #MAEP?

Ed funding: A new formula in Mississippi? The structure for the formula is average daily attendance times base student cost plus at-risk component minus local contribution plus 8-percent guarantee. Meant to ensure “adequate current operation funding levels,” the formula has been decried by critics as a behemoth and defended by education advocates and cash-strapped districts…