Sunday, April 29, 2012

Nancy is never happy

The Executive Director of the Parents' Campaign moved from charter schools to education funding:

This afternoon, the House and Senate passed the appropriations conference report on HB 1593, the K-12 funding bill.

The conference report funds the MAEP at about $19.4-million above the current level, but it does not cover the mandatory $23-million increase in retirement. This will leave our classrooms with about $3.6-million less than they have this year and the MAEP underfunded next year by almost $260-million.

Additionally, the conference report:

Provides $8-million in funding for teacher supplies (an increase over current year)
Fully funds the National Board Certification Program and Chickasaw Cession payments
Reduces by half the allocation for high-growth districts (resulting in about the same level of funding as current year)
Appropriates $6-million for Teach for America
Includes $500,000 for a study of the MAEP formula (we are concerned that this is an effort to permanently reduce funding for Mississippi's public schools)

You can read the entire conference report here.

During the House debate, an effort was made by Rep. Cecil Brown to recommit the bill to increase funding for MAEP, but the effort failed on a 47-68 vote. The conference report passed 115-6. The Senate had very little debate and passed the bill without any nay votes.

There has been no conference report filed on the charter school bill thus far. The deadline for that conference report to be filed is Monday. Click here to see the progress made on other bills we are tracking.

Please keep our students and teachers in your thoughts and prayers as they begin state testing. Subject area tests will be administered in our high schools and in fifth and eighth grades in the coming week, and the MCT2 will be administered in grades 3-8 the following week. Students and teachers have been working hard all year to ensure that our children are prepared to compete well with their peers in other states and throughout the world, and we wish them all the best! Click here to see what you can do to help your child and your school succeed.

The House and Senate will convene again late tomorrow afternoon to continue work on conference reports. Watch our website for updates, and send us your name and mobile number if you want to receive text messages in the case of urgent news over the weekend. Thanks again for working so hard for our kids!

Gratefully,

Nancy


13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Loome is a laughingstock. She writes:

Includes $500,000 for a study of the MAEP formula (we are concerned that this is an effort to permanently reduce funding for Mississippi's public schools)

Please tell us Nancy why you don't want the formula studied.

It CAN'T be because you are worried about funding because the damn unworkable non-functioning formula has only been fully funded twice and then only because the Legislature used one-time money puffery.

TWICE Nancy. Two f'ing times. So there is no way in the world studying the formula could lead to a permanent reduction in funding because on a de facto basis that is the status quo under which we already operate.

Sometimes one can't help but think that the people who read Loome's tripe must be ignorant or intellectually impaired. How else to describe why people believe her bullshit?

Anonymous said...

Here's the catch: If Nancy is happy then Nancy has worked herself out of a job. So Nancy must stay unhappy to stay employed.

Anonymous said...

To anyone :

I would appreciate a quick education on this Loome woman's interest in opposing charter schools.
I keep seeing her name everywhere, but I'm not from Jackson so I don't know her history.

Is she a lobbyist for Cecil Brown and the multiple superintendents ?

It's my understanding that she sends her kids to the most expensive and exclusive
private academy within Mississippi.

Just wondering.

Shadowfax said...

12:37; are you describing Loome or Jesse or Jerry Mitchell?

Anonymous said...

She has twin daughters and a son. Last I heard, they were all in the Clinton Public Schools.

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Anonymous said...

Just out of curiosity, what is "the most expensive and exclusive private academy within Mississippi" these days?

Shadowfax said...

Point of Order. How does one 'remove a post, once posted'? I see that periodically. Secondly, if the blog administrator has already approved a post for publication, why then does the blog administrator later remove the approved post? Sorry for the hijack and thanks for an answer.

Anonymous said...

10:24 - apparently not St. Andrew's - there's no "Loome" listed in the student directory.

Anonymous said...

St. Andrews is the most expensive. Why that is remains unknown.

Jackson Prep continues to dominate that school in everything.

Saint A has no real Sports.

Anonymous said...

3:55:

everything except academics, college placements, etc. ;
and arent they in diff. divisions in sports? because st. a is listed as state champs in a number of sports...

Anonymous said...

This lady is just the poster child for all the rest of the foot draggers who don't want to lose their jobs , their power, their identity and in most cases a paycheck is involved. Yes people don't understand what unseats them. No matter the damage they have done- they have apparently no shame at blocking the possibility of much needed change coming in. They have rationalized they and only they know what is best for these students. Well the proof is in the pudding/ ratings and the powers that were have had long enough to prove themselves as arbiters of good judgment over this cities ' struggling children. ENOUGH!

Anonymous said...

I seriously doubt that parents are paying $15K+ per year for sports... They would just go to Madison Central or NWR.



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