The Mississippi Senate voted to approve of a new K-12 education funding formula, erasing a decades-old process.

A new school funding formula has been approved by the Legislature that, like the long-standing Mississippi Adequate Education Program, will rely on an objective mechanism to determine how much ...

The additional funding will bring the education budget to $2.94 billion – about $50 million less than MAEP would have ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi would ditch a complex school funding formula that legislators have largely ignored since it became law a generation ago and replace it with a new plan that some ...