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The 2020–2024 Mississippi Legislature was composed of the Mississippi State Senate and the Mississippi House of Representatives. [1] General elections for the Senate and the House were held on November 5, 2019. [2] [3] The first session was held from January 7, 2020 to October 10, 2020. [1]
In 2021, Reeves enacted a law that limits trans students from competing in sports that correspond with their gender identities. He also enacted a law that bars trans minors from accessing certain ...
In February and March 2021, the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill (known as SB 2536) by a vote of 34–9 in the Senate and 81–28 in the House to ban transgender individuals from participating in athletic sports or Olympic events which correlate with their gender identity. According to the bill, any athlete whose sex someone disputes will ...
In 2021, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed legislation to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams. Last year, he signed a bill to ban gender-affirming ...
In Mississippi, there are 152 school districts consisting of 3 agricultural high schools, 68 county unit districts, and 81 separate district schools. There are 1,089 elementary and secondary schools with 491,962 students and 33,358 teachers, compared to the national averages of 1,999 schools, 965,991 students, and 63,179 teachers.
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Although unusual in the West, school corporal punishment is common in Mississippi, with 31,236 public school students [2] paddled at least one time. [3] A greater percentage of students were paddled in Mississippi than in any other state, according to government data for the 2011–2012 school year.
Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill to modify the state’s public education funding formula through the Senate Education Committee, while a separate bill has been filed in the House to ...