House leaders tweak school funding plan after feedback from education groups by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today March 5, 2024 House leaders said they have tried to address concerns of educators in their latest attempt to rewrite the longstanding formula that determines the amount of state funds provided to local school districts for their basic operation.
if the current formula was fully funded. making it cost a little less to fully fund. One member of the House Education Committee, Rep. Percy Watson, D-Hattiesburg, said of Education groups urge lawmakers to keep objective formula in place for school funding Multiple education groups previously expressed concern that the House language did not include an objective criteria to determine the base student cost.
bill to include eight superintendents — half from large districts and half from small districts across the state — on a committee that would provide legislators a base student cost every four years. In intervening years, a modest inflation factor would be added to the base student cost.
and that rewrite included many of the same elements as the new House bill. Additionally, House leaders including McCarty have used a password protected website developed by those groups with the help of an out-of-state consulting group to run calculations of how much money varying versions of their newly proposed formula would produce per school district.
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