State Education Finance and Governance Profile: Mississippi

Autor/in	Poulin, Nicole S.
Titel	State Education Finance and Governance Profile: Mississippi
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 85 (2010) 1, S.80-83 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
Schlagwörter	Federal Legislation; Low Achievement; Achievement Gains; Racial Differences; Rural Areas; Profiles; Demography; Educational Finance; Expenditures; Taxes; Funding Formulas; Budgets; Income; School Funds; Elementary Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education; School Personnel; Teachers; Public Education; Administrative Organization; Educational Policy; Governance; School Districts; Educational Quality; State Legislation; Problems; Mississippi + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Rassenunterschied; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Demografie; Bildungsfonds; Ausgaben; Abgabe; Funding; Finanzierung; Finanzhaushalt; Einkommen; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Schulpersonal; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Öffentliche Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; School district; Schulbezirk; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Landesrecht; Problemsituation
Abstract	This article presents the state education finance and governance profile of Mississippi. Mississippians compose 0.95% of the total U.S. population, and the average density of the state is 60.7 people per square mile. In terms of education finance, the property tax is the sole form of local revenue for public education in Mississippi. In 1997, the Mississippi State Legislature signed into law the Education Enhancement Fund, which requires the state to appropriate $16 million each fiscal year to be distributed to the 152 school districts for maintenance and upkeep of the buildings, transportation, classroom supplies and technology, and other needed projects. The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is headed by the State Superintendent of Education, who is appointed by the State Board of Education. The state has 1,047 public schools, organized into 152 separate districts that compose county districts and city districts. The state of Mississippi currently employs 45,902 professional employees for work in the public school system and an additional 34,242 classified employees. One of the state challenges, low achievement scores based on No Child Left Behind accountability measures, is improving. Between 2002 and 2004, Mississippians gained 4 percentage points in fourth-grade reading, and fourth-grade math proficiency increased by 8 percentage points. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10