HB193

Increases the weight for low-income students in the Mississippi Student Funding Formula.

Mississippi House Bill 193 proposes to amend the Mississippi Student Funding Formula by increasing the percentage of allotted weight for low-income students. This change aims to provide additional funding for schools with a higher proportion of low-income students, as determined by the Mississippi State Department of Education. The bill specifies that for school districts or charter schools where the number of low-income students exceeds 35% of the net enrollment, a weight of 20% is applied to the number of low-income students in excess of this threshold.