GREENVILLE, Miss.–Public schools in the Delta could be getting more money with a new funding apparatus agreed upon this weekend by both the state House and Senate, and sent to the governor to be signed into law. The Mississippi Student Funding Formula replaces, if made law, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, long considered inadequate.
“This whole changing the education formula is about three years in the making,” said state Re. Rob Roberson, talking to reporters soon after the compromise was reached and passed.
According to the new formula, more money would go to schools in poorer or impoverished areas, and to schools with higher numbers of students with special needs.
When it was all said and done, it’s been just a brilliant compromise,” he said. Every superintendent I’ve heard from really has been excited about the potential this has.”
The new formula would put about $220 million more per year into public K-12 education.
