Mississippi Senate kills school choice bill

Don’t water down school choice bill

Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms.

Mississippi Senate kills school choice bill

Mississippi Senate kills school choice bill JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi lawmakers killed a comprehensive school choice bill on Tuesday in a Senate Education Committee meeting that lasted less than two minutes. The committee rejected House Bill 2, a more than 500-page measure that included multiple school choice provisions. The House Education Committee advanced its own teacher pay raise plan, proposing a total increase of $5,000. The ful…

‘The bill dies today.’ Senate committee kills House school choice measure

Mississippi Republicans Whiff on School Choice

Our education freedom alliance with ALEC has been on a roll with school choice sweeping through red states across the country. We hit a bump in the road earlier this week when the Mississippi Senate Republicans rejected an ambitious voucher proposal that would have offered $12,000 to low income students (and more enrollees in future years), and up to $7,000 to attend a private or religious school. By killing the bill, Republicans handed a big wi…

Mississippi Senate fails to advance school choice bill - WXXV News 25

JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)-The Mississippi Senate has killed a school choice bill that was narrowly passed by the State House a few weeks ago, a bill that has divided legislative Republicans and even some statewide officials. House Bill 2, also called the Education Freedom Act, was rejected in a Senate Education Committee meeting Tuesday. The bill had passed the State House by a 61-59 margin back on January 16. A key component of the bill, if passed,…