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Jackson, MS – Speaker Jason White issues the following statement on education formula
rewrite.
“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.”
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