It's hard to believe that the Mississippi legislature has been in session for over a month. Now that members have been assigned to committee positions and committees have had time to organized real work is slowing beginning. I spent most of last week in Appropriation meetings for various state agencies. Each agency comes before the committee and makes their request for funding for the 2021 budget. These meetings generally last about 15 to 20 minutes but they give legislators an opportunity to hear the agencies plans and ask questions. Here is an interesting fact I learned this week. Our community college professors make about $20,000/year less than a professor at a major university. But even more interesting is the community colleges regularly lose faculty to our K-12 schools, because K-12 teachers are paid better than our community college professors. Over the past several months the
From Your Capitol - February 9, 2020
From Your Capitol - February 9, 2020
From Your Capitol - February 9, 2020
It's hard to believe that the Mississippi legislature has been in session for over a month. Now that members have been assigned to committee positions and committees have had time to organized real work is slowing beginning. I spent most of last week in Appropriation meetings for various state agencies. Each agency comes before the committee and makes their request for funding for the 2021 budget. These meetings generally last about 15 to 20 minutes but they give legislators an opportunity to hear the agencies plans and ask questions. Here is an interesting fact I learned this week. Our community college professors make about $20,000/year less than a professor at a major university. But even more interesting is the community colleges regularly lose faculty to our K-12 schools, because K-12 teachers are paid better than our community college professors. Over the past several months the