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Despite unprecedented revenue growth, MAEP was underfunded $273 million during the 2022 session and has been underfunded $3.3 billion since 2008.īut going into the 2023 elections and with Gunn serving as a lame duck speaker not running for reelection, talk of full funding for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program has resurfaced. On the other hand, there also was not much talk about the full funding of MAEP, which provides a base level of state funding for all school districts with more funding for less affluent or property poor districts. In the ensuing 2019 election, no candidate, including Reeves who won the gubernatorial election nor Gunn’s House Republican candidates, ran on the issue of repealing MAEP. With both of the chambers’ presiding officers supporting the effort, most believed MAEP’s days were numbered.īut lo and behold, the effort of Reeves and Gunn failed. Tate Reeves went to work to scrap the MAEP funding formula. That proposal was narrowly defeated at the polls in 2015, thanks in part to the fact that the Legislature put an alternative proposal on the ballot to confuse voters.Īfter that 2015 defeat, Gunn and then-Lt. The Supreme Court, in a word salad ruling, said just because the law said the Legislature “shall” fully fund MAEP did not mean that the Legislature, well, shall fully fund MAEP.Īnd about that time a group of education advocates gathered the signatures to place on the ballot an initiative that would have strengthened the state’s commitment to public education, presumably putting more pressure on the Legislature to provide full funding. Ronnie Musgrove, who was one of the architects of the Adequate Education Program that was enacted during his tenure as lieutenant governor, sued the Legislature in 2015 on behalf of a group of school districts saying that the law mandated full funding. But it has not been from lack of effort from those outside of the Legislature.įormer Gov. MAEP has not been fully funded again since then. And it was fully funded again in the 2008 session, but Barbour cut MAEP funding later that year and then reduced funding for most agencies because of the so-called Great Recession that resulted in a dramatic slowdown in state tax collections. It would take only a minimal increase each year to maintain full funding. Interestingly, Barbour and others campaigned for election later that year proclaiming the fight over full funding of MAEP was over. It was not fully funded again until 2007, when Barbour acquiesced to House Democrats and agreed to full funding. It was fully funded during the phase-in period and during the 2003 session – the first of full enactment. MAEP was passed by the Legislature in 1997 over a gubernatorial veto and was phased in over six years. But education advocates have generally trusted DeBar to make decisions they believe are in the best interest of public schools. Those tweaks could theoretically result in the need for less money to fully fund MAEP. Please reload the page and try again.ĭeBar made his pronouncement with the caveat that the MAEP formula would need to be “tweaked” as part of the full funding effort. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.