Rep. Kent McCarty

@EricMGarcia Congratulations!

Hey! Today marks seven years sober! I almost forgot!

@DrewSav I didn’t think I could hate anything more than your food takes, and yet…

No one else has said so I'll say it: the US national anthem sucks and should be replaced with something good.

@alldspeed I just wanted a clean bill to make any tweaks or improvements to the funding formula that may arise during the session. I don’t want to run into a situation where we run things outside of the formula just because we don’t have a vehicle to do it the right way.

@KentMcCarty What is happening here?

@ThatAmyMiller Perfection.

Nailed it

@ChazNuttycombe @StateNavigate Great work tonight to you and the team! And congrats on nailing it with your polling.

We ate our pizza, did our race calls, and worked our asses off. If you wanna support @StateNavigate grow nationwide, make a tax-deductible donation to our nonpartisan nonprofit today. statenavigate.org/donate/

@wpmcgee And possibly longer.

We need a complete and total shutdown of EaglePost until we can figure out what's going on.

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 We repealed MAEP because we wanted a formula that worked for our most vulnerable, highest-need students rather than one that continued to leave those same kids behind.

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.

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.

Sorry, but I want reliable croissants

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 has made all the difference, & our state is better off for it.

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.

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.

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 📚 African American students rank 3rd among their peers in both 4th grade reading & math.

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👇