Education Funding in Mississippi

For detailed information on a variety of education funding topics, including the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) and its history, school district fund balances, state rainy day funds, teacher salaries, the Chickasaw Cession, and more, visit Topics on Funding.

For information on Initiative 42, click here.

Education Funding FY2020

▪  School District MAEP Allocations for FY2020 and Other Data

▪  Your District's Funding Shortage for 2019-2020, Total Shortfall Since FY2009

Education Funding FY2019

▪  School District MAEP Allocations for FY2019 and Other Data

▪  Your District's Funding Shortage for 2018-2019, Total Shortfall Since FY2009

Education Funding FY2018

▪  School District MAEP Allocations for FY2018 and Other Data

▪  Your District's Funding Shortage for 2017-2018, Total Shortfall Since FY2009

Education Funding FY2017

• School District MAEP Allocations for FY2017, State Budget Analysis, Budget Recommendations, and Other Data

• Your District's Funding Shortage for 2016-2017, Total Shortfall Since FY2009

• K-12 Budget, Corporate Tax Cuts Pass House and Senate

• Massive Tax Cuts Endanger School Funding

• House Cuts K-12 Funding, Defeats Effort to Protect MAEP

• Stop the Attack on Public Schools

• Vouchers, Less Funding, More Bureaucracy Pushed by Legislature

Education Funding FY2016

• School District MAEP Allocations for FY2016, State Budget Analysis, Budget Recommendations, and Other Data

• Your District's Funding Shortage for 2015-2016, Total Shortfall Since FY2009

• 52 Representatives Chose Children Over Tax Cuts

• Tax Cuts or School Funding?

• Senate Appropriations Leaves K-12 Underfunded by $201M

• Teacher Assistant Pay Raise

• Passage of HCR 9 - Legislative Alternative to School Funding Amendment

• Legislative Budget Committee Says Cut Budgets and Bank the Money

Education Funding FY2015

• School District MAEP Allocations for FY2015, State Budget Analysis, Budget Recommendations, and Other Data

• Education a Priority? MAEP's Share of State Budget is Shrinking

• Governor Signs Teacher Pay Raise, Ed Funding Bills

• Legislature Passes K-12 Funding Bill

• Teacher Pay Raise Conference Report Passed

• It's Time to Fund a Decent Education for Our Kids

• Fund Students (MAEP) or Fund Pet Programs? 

• Governor Bryant Recommends Underfunding MAEP By $284.5-million

Education Funding FY2014

• Education Funding for FY2014

• State Revenue Surplus Should Go to MAEP

• Legislator Says Scrap MAEP

• MDE Budget Request for FY2014

• Governor Bryant Announces Executive Budget Recommendation

• Public Schools Underfunded $1.3-billion in 6 Years

Education Funding FY2013

• Education Funding for FY2013

• MAEP Underfunded by Almost $260-million for FY2013

• Governor Bryant Releases Executive Budget Recommendation

• Joint Legislative Budget Committee Recommendation FY2013

Education Funding FY2012

• Education Funding for FY2012

• Education Funding Charts for FY2012

• Education Funding Legislation for FY2012

• Senate Defeats Leadership's Attempt to Strip Funding from Ed Budget

• Senate Leadership Fails to Honor Level Funding Vote of Senate and House

• Ed Budget Decreases Again for FY2012

• Governor Barbour's Budget Cuts and Recommendations FY2009 - FY2012

• Supplanting $65-million

• House Passes Level Funding

• FY2012 Revenue

• Barbour Pushes $65-Million Cut

• What is Level Funding?

• Legislative Budget Committee FY12 Debate

• Legislative Budget Committee 2011-2012 Recommendation

• FY12 Budget Request

Education Funding FY2011

• Governor's FY11 Budget

• Response to Governor’s FY11 Budget

• K-12 Cut Disproportionately

• Enhanced FMAP Extension

• Enhanced Medicaid Match

• K-12 Denied $81-Million

• Federal Education Jobs Fund

• School District Fund Balances

• Cuts to Add-ons

• Education Funding in FY11

Education Funding FY2010

• Effects of Budget Cuts on Schools and Schoolchildren

• September Budget Cuts

• Budget Cuts Made to School Districts

• December Budget Cuts

• Senate Bill 2688 Debate

• January Budget Cuts

• Cuts to K-12 Disproportionate

Education Funding FY2009

• School Funding Delayed

• Cuts to School Budgets

• Restore FY09 Cuts

• MAEP Comparisons

• Revenue Estimates Down

• Children First Act 2009

• Governor's Budget for 2009

• ARRA Stablization Funds

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)

• ARRA Information