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By Kate Royals Apr 14, 2021 3:09 PM With less than a week before Gov. Tate Reeves must approve the education budget passed by lawmakers this year, a merit pay program he supports was not funded this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The School Recognition Program, which provides bonuses for public school teachers in high-performing schools and those that improve their students’ achievement, went unfunded this year by the Legislature. And with less than a week before Reeves mu...

More harm than good comes from issuing school grades. They brand schools, they pit schools against each other, they mar a school’s reputation in the community based on limited information, and they put excessive pressure on students and teachers through state mandated testing. This happens every year, but this year is particularly problematic because the effects of the pandemic have not been uniform from school to school or from one community to the next. And with so many children having suff...

Jackson • A legislative watchdog committee is warning lawmakers that they do not have up-to-date information to make funding decisions for a teacher merit pay program, and the law as it exists is unclear about the state Department of Education’s responsibility in administering it. In a report released this week, the Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) committee highlighted problems with the controversial Mississippi School Recognition Pr...