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Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 0 Parent Frames Length D Parent Frames N Substring P 1 Document N N Substring 0 P If X D N D All X D All N For I 0 X I Function Mm_swapimage V3 0 Var I J 0 X A Mm_swapimage Arguments Document Mm_sr New Array For I 0 I Nbsp Nbsp Home Contact First Lady Biography Staff October 31 2006 Nbsp Governor Haley Barbour S Remarks To The Mississippi School Board Association Education Is The Number One Economic Development Issue And The Number One Quality Of Life Issue In Our State Nbsp It Is Rightly The Number One Priority Of State Government That Priority Has Been Reflected In The Budgets For Our K-12 Public Schools This School Year Teachers Are Making An Average Of 30 More Than They Were Six Years Ago After Two Consecutive 8 Increases In Teacher Pay During My Administration Nbsp This School Year Spending In Our Public Schools From Federal State And Local Sources Is Estimated To Be Between 7 600 And 7 800 Per Student Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor State Support For Our K-12 School Districts Through The Mississippi Adequate Education Program Has Increased 323 Million Or 19 Nbsp The Increased Support For Our School Districts Is Reflected By The Decisions School Boards Have Made At The Local Level Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Fewer School Districts Are Raising Local Property Taxes Nbsp The Year The State Came The Closest To Ldquo Fully Funding Rdquo The Maep Formula More School Districts Raised Their Taxes Than In Either One Of The Last Two Years Nbsp In The Budget Year Before I Took Office School Year 2003-2004 94 School Districts Raised Their Taxes Nbsp The Last Two Years That Number Dropped To 77 And 78 Respectively Nbsp We Don Rsquo T Have All The Data Yet For The Current School Year 2006-2007 But All Reports Indicate That The Number Of Districts Raising Their Taxes Will Be Less Than When Maep Was Ldquo Fully Funded Rdquo By The 2003 Legislature We Have Also Worked With Teachers Principals School Superintendents Community Leaders And Legislators To Enact Reforms So That We Can Get Better Results For The Money We Spend Nbsp Thanks To The Upgrade Education Reform Act Which The Legislature Passed Last Spring This School Year For The First Time Local School Leaders Are Free To Make Innovative Decisions About How To Run Their Schools Without Checking With Officials In Jackson First Because The Legislature Adopted Ldquo Home Rule Rdquo For All School Districts Because The Most Important Ingredient To A Successful Classroom Is A Quality Teacher We Expanded Our Teacher Recruitment And Retention Efforts By Allowing Automatic Certification Of Any Teacher Meeting The Federal No Child Left Behind Ldquo Highly Qualified Teacher Rdquo Definition Authorizing A Plan To Pay Teachers Based On Performance Authorizing Higher Pay For Teachers In Hard To Staff Subjects And Districts And Expanding Alternative Certification Programs For The First Time Every Student Will Have The Opportunity To Earn College Credit In High School Through Expanded Dual Credit And Dual Enrollment Programs More Ap Classes And Through The Mississippi Virtual Public School To Help Put Discipline In Every Classroom The Legislature Authorized Financial Rewards For Experienced Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To Other Middle School Teachers Nbsp Nbsp And For The First Time The State Of Mississippi Is Honestly Acknowledging Our High Dropout Rate And Is Implementing Plans To Address It We Are Also Starting To Embrace Lifelong Learning In Mississippi Nbsp During The Musgrove Administration The Community Colleges Rsquo Budget Was Cut 32 Million 16 And The Universities Budget Was Cut 45 Million 7 Nbsp Since I Have Been Governor Support For Community Colleges Has Increased 12 And Including A Doubling Of State Support For Workforce Training The Combined Increase Is 29 Nbsp Support For Universities Has Increased More Than 15 Working With The Legislature I Know We Will Build On The Positive Steps That Have Been Made In The Last 2 Frac12 Years Nbsp This Morning I Was With The Legislative Budget Committee To Adopt The Revenue Estimate That Will Guide Us As We Develop The Budget For The 2007-2008 School Year Nbsp We Approved An Estimate That Predicts Revenue Growth Of 250 Million In Our State Rsquo S General Fund Over The Current Fiscal Year That Is Encouraging News Nbsp While There Is Still Uncertainty From Katrina Our Economy Is Growing And We Are Increasing Revenue Without Raising Anybody Rsquo S Taxes Nbsp We Have More Taxpayers With More Taxable Income And That Means More Revenue Nbsp Last Year We Finished Digging Out Of Our 720 Million Budget Hole From The Year I Ran For Governor Nbsp We Had A Small Surplus And Began Setting Aside A Rainy Day Fund As Called For By State Law Nbsp A 250 Million Increase In Revenue Would Make You Feel Optimistic About Our Budget Hellip Until You Remember The State Board Of Education Has Asked For The First 360 Million Of That 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Universities Have Asked For A 250 Million Increase Nbsp The Community Colleges Are Asking For A 145 Million Increase In All K-12 And Higher Education Are Requesting 755 Million In Increased Spending For Fy 08 While Revenue Is Going Up Only 250 Million Nbsp Obviously We Have To Make Some Choices Of The State Board Of Education Rsquo S Request 158 Million Is To Ldquo Fully Fund Rdquo The Maep Formula Nbsp A 158 Million Increase Would Be 63 Of The Entire Projected General Fund Revenue Growth Ndash Revenue Growth That Also Has To Cover Public Safety Health Care And Higher Education Needs My Budget Recommendation To The Legislature Will Increase Funding For K-12 Public Schools By More Than The 158 Million The State Board Of Education Has Requested For The Maep Formula Nbsp But I Think It Would Be A Mistake For All Of That Increase To Go To The Maep Formula Nbsp I Do Not Believe That Would Be The Most Effective Way To Use An Additional 158 Million To Improve Our Public Schools With The Increase I Am Proposing For Our K-12 Public Schools State Support For K-12 Will Have Increased By More Than 480 Million During My Administration An Increase Of More Than 24 Nbsp This Would Be The Largest Increase In State Spending For Our K-12 Public Schools During Any Four Year Term Of Any Mississippi Governor Last Year Representative Cecil Brown And Senator Mike Chaney Developed A Plan To Phase In Full-funding Of The Maep Formula Over Four Years Nbsp My Budget For The Upcoming Fiscal Year Will Follow That Bipartisan Plan Which Was Overwhelmingly Approved By The Legislature And Which I Signed Into Law This Spring Increasing Direct Support For The School Districts Through Maep By 65 Million Nbsp By Following This Bipartisan Phase-in Plan We Can Afford To Give And My Budget Will Provide Our Public School Teachers A 3 Across-the-board Teacher Pay Raise Nbsp With This Pay Raise The Average Salary For A Public School Teacher Will Approach 43 000 In Addition To This 65 Million Increase In Direct Support Through Maep And A 3 Teacher Pay Raise My Budget Would Pay For 100 Of The Increased Costs For Health Insurance Premiums And Retirement Plan Contributions For Teachers And Other School District Employees Ndash An Increased Cost To State Taxpayers Of Approximately 20 Million As I Have Done Every Year Since I Became Governor I Will Support Full Funding Of The High-growth Formula To Help Those School Districts That Are Growing At An Exceptionally Fast Rate Nbsp In The Current School Year After Two Years Of Trying We Are Only Partially Funding The High-growth Component Of The Maep Formula For The First Time Nbsp My Budget Will Include The 19 Million That Is Needed To Fully Fund The High Growth School Districts Nbsp Nbsp My Budget Will Continue To Support Our Classroom Teachers By More Than Doubling The Amount Of Funding For Classroom Supplies Funding The Full Request For The National Board Certified Teacher Program And Setting Aside 2 Million To Pay More To Experienced Middle School Teachers Who Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Nbsp If We Improve The Health Of Our School Children By Keeping Them Physically Active They Will Be More Ready To Learn And Less Likely To Cause Discipline Problems Nbsp My Budget Will Include 2 Million To Provide The Training Support To Our Teachers So That Every Elementary Student Can Have 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Every Day To Help Address Our State Rsquo S Unacceptably High Dropout Rate I Will Include The Funding That State Superintendent Hank Bounds Requests For His Plan To Redesign Our High Schools Nbsp I Will Also Include An Extra 500 000 For The Jobs For Mississippi Graduates Program To Pilot Its Program In 10 Middle Schools In Addition To The More Than 158 Million Increase I Will Propose For K-12 My Budget Will Include 5 Million For Early Childhood Development Initiatives To Help Our Kids Be Ready To Learn When They Begin School Nbsp Since 80 Of Our Four Year Olds Are Already Being Served By Child Care Centers Head Start Or Pre-kindergarten We Should Improve The Infrastructure Which Is Already In Place By Including More Educational Content These Are Some Of The Items I Will Include In A Balanced Budget That Will Put Our State On Solid Financial Footing With A Growing Rainy Day Fund After Being In A 720 Million Budget Hole Just Three Years Ago Nbsp We Can Do This While Increasing K-12 Funding By 7 Next Year Nbsp If The Legislature Accepts My Budget State Funding For K-12 Will Go Up More Than 480 Million In Four Years The Largest Increase In Any Governor Rsquo S Four Year Term Ever In Mississippi History The Steps We Have Taken In The Last 2 Frac12 Years And The Steps We Will Take In The Upcoming Legislative Session Will Improve The Results We Get In The Classroom For Years To Come Nbsp Nbsp After All That Is How Any Politician Rsquo S Commitment To Education Should Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Money He Rsquo S Willing To Spend Nbsp Even Though Under My Administration K-12 Spending Will Increase At A Record Rate The Test Is What Are The Results That Politician Demands And Gets For Our Children Nbsp It Is Most Appropriate That I Be With You When I Offer These Proposals Because You Are Where The Rubber Meets The Road In Improving The Lives Of Our Children Nbsp You And The People Who Work For You - Administrators Principals And Teachers Ndash Are Working Every Day To Improve The Lives Of Our 470 000 Children Who Are In Public Schools Nbsp Thank You For Your Service Nbsp P O Box 139 Jackson Ms 39205 Phone 601 359 3150 Fax 601 359 3741 News