Rep. Kent McCarty
@KentMcCarty
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Representing Lamar County in #msleg, District 101. Vice Chair, Education. USM Grad. Small Business Owner. Education is everything. #msedu #SMTTT
Joined April 2009
Charles Huff is engineering the greatest college football turnaround no one cares about. The People's COTY
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Another crushing blow to America small businesses.
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The PPI (producer price index) does not include imports, but that's what we've been screaming for months. If you raise the price of imported goods via tariffs, the domestic suppliers will raise prices along with them and this has been documented over and over again.
Wow the PPI for July - price of goods from manufacturers - comes in WAY above expectations. Monthly +0.9% (exp 0.2%) Yearly +3.3% (exp 2.5%) When we said tariffs would take a while to start hitting prices and inflation numbers overall, this is what we meant.
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So no, we didn’t repeal MAEP just to say we did, and no the new formula isn’t like the old one where it matters. We repealed MAEP because we wanted a formula that worked for our most vulnerable, highest-need students rather than one that continued to leave those same kids behind.
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Bobby frames the topic as if the only thing that matters in school funding is how you arrive at the per student funding number, not HOW & WHERE that funding is allocated. Does JPS care how you calculated base cost if the result is that they receive $20m less annually? Doubt it.
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For Jackson Public Schools, one of our largest & highest need districts, the change to MSFF meant nearly $20m in new annual funding in FY25. Investing the same amount into Bobby’s preferred MAEP would have sent only ~$230k (!!) more to JPS, but millions more to wealthy districts
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As a reminder, this is what MSFF achieved— for the first time, we provided additional per-pupil funding weights for ELL students, students with special needs, & districts with high levels of concentrated poverty. Additionally, MSFF increased total K-12 investment by over $200m.
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It’s been over a year since we passed a new school funding formula by a vote of 117-0, and Bobby still insists on clinging to the old formula that overwhelmingly benefited wealthy, property-rich school districts at the expense of our highest-need, most underserved students. Sad.
Bobby Harrison: "Give Mississippi legislators credit. Without being cajoled, threatened or begged, they fully funded education during the recently completed special session." https://t.co/Ynmzzt0Iaw
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While there is always more work to do, today is a day to celebrate our students’ impressive academic achievement & also to thank our incredible teachers who have gone above & beyond to deliver these results despite numerous headwinds. Your tireless commitment to our young people
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In other words, if every state looked the same socioeconomically and demographically, Mississippi would rank at the very top in 3 of the 4 tested areas and 4th in the other.
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Most impressively of all, @urbaninstitute released a report showing that the demographically adjusted results would place Mississippi students in FIRST PLACE nationally in 4th grade reading, 4th grade math, & 8th grade reading, as well as 4th nationally in 8th grade math.
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As impressive as those results are, the results under the hood are even more staggering: 📚 Highest gains in the nation in 4th grade reading & math from 2013-2024 📚 Hispanic students rank 1st in the nation among their peers in 4th grade reading and 2nd in 4th grade math 📚
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While there is always more work to do, today is a day to celebrate our students’ impressive academic achievement & also to thank our incredible teachers who have gone above & beyond to deliver these results despite numerous headwinds. Your tireless commitment to our young people
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In other words, if every state looked the same socioeconomically and demographically, Mississippi would rank at the very top in 3 of the 4 tested areas and 4th in the other.
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Most impressively of all, @urbaninstitute released a report showing that the demographically adjusted results would place Mississippi students in FIRST PLACE nationally in 4th grade reading, 4th grade math, & 8th grade reading, as well as 4th nationally in 8th grade math.
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As impressive as those results are, the results under the hood are even more staggering: 📚 Highest gains in the nation in 4th grade reading & math from 2013-2024 📚 Hispanic students rank 1st in the nation among their peers in 4th grade reading and 2nd in 4th grade math 📚
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The “Nation’s Report Card” is out, and it’s a great day for MS students & teachers! Our students not only reached their highest ever level of proficiency in reading & math, but have also risen to 9th nationally in 4th grade reading & 16th nationally in 4th grade math. More👇
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