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Teacher Pay Raise Update | February 11-15, 2019

Earlier this week, the Senate passed their teacher pay raise bill: SB 2770. Simply put, the pay raise in this bill is pitiful. $1000 is pitiful. $500 each year is pitiful. $9.62 per week is pitiful. $1.37 per day is pitiful. We deserve a pay raise that is reflective of our value to this state,…

Did You Know | Corporate Tax Cuts

As we continue to push lawmakers on providing Mississippi teachers with a substantial pay raise, the comment we are met with most often is, “well, sure, of course we’d like to pay teachers but how could we possibly afford to pay for that?!” Meanwhile, thanks to huge corporate tax cuts passed in 2016, Mississippi will…

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Yesterday Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves tweeted that a teacher who was working in 2012 will have seen $8,000 added to their paycheck by the time his term ends later this year. That math sounded a little fuzzy to us so we decided to take it to the chalkboard. The starting teacher salary was $30,900 in…