Teacher Pay Raise A Reality!

HB 530 is now a reality! This historic teacher pay raise will go into effect starting the 2022-2023 school year and is a step forward in improving Mississippi’s educator pipeline crisis. We have been receiving many questions about the details of the new law. To see our frequently asked questions, click here. If you have any…

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Teacher Pay Raise A Reality!

Teacher Pay Raise Closer to Reality

Conferees from the House and Senate met this morning for the first official conference committee meeting for House Bill 530. Though the meeting ended without a final deal, there may finally be a teacher pay raise proposal that both chambers can agree on. How did we get here? HB 530—the only teacher pay raise bill…

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Teacher Pay Raise Closer to Reality

Teacher Pay: What Happens Now

One way to show we value teachers is to pay them fairly. It’s time to make the teacher pay raise a reality. Currently, the teacher pay bill (HB 530) is in conference. This means both the House and the Senate have announced conferees, and they are now working together to come up with a compromise…

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Teacher Pay: What Happens Now

What’s going on with teacher pay?

Mississippi public school teachers can breathe a collective sigh of relief, at least for a little while longer: a bill to provide a much-needed raise has survived a key legislative deadline. On March 1, the Senate Education and Appropriations Committees passed an amended HB 530, which now includes the Senate’s proposed salary schedule as well…

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What’s going on with teacher pay?

Teacher Pay Pathways: Still Alive!

UPDATE 5:30 PM: We are so grateful Senate leadership stepped up and saved the teacher pay raise bill with some hours to spare. We now have a live bill that includes a pay raise for teachers and assistant teachers! Thank you, and all the teachers, for hearing the call. We will keep you posted as…

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Teacher Pay Pathways: Still Alive!

We asked. Teachers spoke.

In our previous report, Nothing in the Pipes: Educator Crisis in Mississippi, we explained how the rising cost of college attendance and the declining value of teaching salaries may be squeezing aspiring new teachers out of the pipeline. To build on that analysis, we surveyed 6,496 Mississippi public school teachers—1 in 6 teachers statewide—in November…

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We asked. Teachers spoke.