Adequate Education Program News Today

Even as House leaders are trying to scrap MAEP, they're having to rely on it to push their alternative public school funding plan.

Like in many recent years, a legislative fight over the MAEP funding formula is looming. The fight's origins go back to 1997.

The Mississippi Adequate Education Program has been the target of many lawmakers.

Gov. Tate Reeves, while in office, has blocked fully funding Mississippi public education formula. But in 2011, he actually advocated for it.

“Based on the time Reeves devotes to talking about transgender women and girls competing in sports, it sure looks like he believes it is the No. 1 issue of this campaign season,” columnist Bobby Harrison writes.

Gov. Tate Reeves is spending an inordinate amount of time on an issue with an impact in Mississippi that is difficult for anyone to identify.

A new Siena College/Mississippi Today poll, conducted April 16-20, illustrates the complexity and internal conflict of the state’s electorate.

Brandon Presley must convince Mississippians that the issues are more important than party labels in governor's race against Tate Reeves.

For 56 days of the 90-day 2023 session of the Mississippi Legislature and before then in the pre-session budgeting work, no one was speaking publicly or seriously about the possibility

Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin asked attorneys from both sides for proposed finding of facts to be turned in by Monday