42 For Better Schools Creates Map to Show School District Funding

Graphic courtesy of 42 For Better Schools

The 42 For Better Schools campaign recently released a website tool that shows voters how much their individual school districts were short-changed by the Mississippi Legislature since 2008.

Statewide, the legislature has not funded nearly $1.7 billion to some 150 school districts in the past seven years.

The school-districts’ web map is easy to use and allows voters to see what the lost state funding could have meant to each district – for updated textbooks, classroom computers, safe buses, more teachers and reading coaches, for example.

The map is the latest information to support passage of Initiative 42, on the Nov. 3 ballot as a constitutional amendment to require the Legislature to keep the funding law it passed in 1997 but has fully funded only twice.

Initiative 42 will appear on the ballot because nearly 200,000 Mississippians signed petitions in 2014 to vote on school funding.

To see how much the Legislature short-changed funding per school district, go to the campaign’s website at www.42forbetterschools.org.

Article courtesy of 42 For Better Schools