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,…
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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…
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Yesterday, President Joyce Helmick and the Mississippi Association of Educators shared a written response to House Bill 1349 with the bill’s author, Representative Charles Busby; education committee chairs Senator Gray Tollison and Representative Richard Bennett; and state leadership. Here is the letter in its entirety: Dear Representative Busby, It was my hope that House Bill…
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MAE is thrilled to announce another Praxis Core Workshop REGISTER HERE Note: Please pay via the registration link or bring a money order to the workshop. Cash and check not accepted.
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It’s no secret that Mississippi educators are underpaid. It’s also not a secret that we are in the midst of a teacher shortage crisis. These facts are directly related. How do we convince young educators to stay here in Mississippi and teach when they can move just across state lines and make a livable wage?…
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN | Last week I had the opportunity to speak with a room full of future teachers at the University of Southern Mississippi. These students were preparing to practice their teaching skills over a two-day professional development workshop. As I listened to them signing in and heard “elementary,” “secondary music,” “history,” “math,”…
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Week 2 of the 2019 Legislative Session has wrapped up, and it was a busy one: 147 education-focused bills from legislators in the House and 58 education-focused bills from Senate legislators have been filed. The proposed legislation includes teacher and assistant teacher pay raises, bolstering teaching assistance in districts, increasing EEF funding for classroom supplies, and reevaluating state testing requirements…
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