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SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE PASSES RAISE FOR TEACHERS
JACKSON – Teachers, teacher assistants, librarians and counselors would receive an additional $1,000 over the next two years under legislation passed by the Senate Education Committee today, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said.
Senate Bill 2770, by Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, would cost taxpayers about $51 million over two years and impact more than 30,000 teachers, teacher assistants, librarians and counselors. The bill heads to the Senate for consideration.
“If we can commit to increasing salaries by about $51 million over the next two years, a teacher that was working in 2012 will make almost $8,000 more per year in 2020 than he or she made before I became lieutenant governor,” Lt. Gov. Reeves said.
Lt. Gov. Reeves said in September 2018 he wanted to direct an estimated $50 million in savings from the Medicaid program into Mississippi classrooms. Since 2014, Mississippi taxpayers have invested an additional $350 million in teacher pay raises. The popular School Recognition Program has resulted in an additional $41.8 million awarded to teachers for their work in the classroom.
