Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - State education officials making their legally-mandated push to support Mississippi's school funding formula are being questioned about rising spending on administrators and whether it would be worth more to spend additional money outside the formula.
Lawmakers would have to add an estimated $311.7 million to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program in the 2016 budget year beginning July 1 to provide what the formula calls an adequate amount of aid to local school districts. That gap is up from $257 million this year, in part because officials will need to add more than $100 million next year to cover the second year of across-the-board teacher pay increases.
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and others are asking whether local districts are spending money wisely, citing increasing administrative costs and falling spending on instruction.
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