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Mississippi governor signs largest teacher raise in years

Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar Jr., R-Leakesville, addresses lawmakers as they consider legislation during a committee meeting at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) FILE - House Appropriations Committee member Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach, speaks to the specifics of providing additional funding for state public school teachers' salaries for fiscal year 2020 in a bill before the committee, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Bennett will help negotiate the final version of a teacher pay raise bill in March 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves speaks Thursday, March 24, 2022, during a news conference outside his Capitol office in Jackson, Miss. The Republican says he wants legislators to phase out the state income tax. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus) Rep. Jansen Owen, R-Poplarville, right, studies the figures on the laptop of House Education Committee Vice Chairman Kent McCarty, R-Hattiesburg, as he speaks during a meeting of the education conferees from both the House and Senate, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, seeking a compromise on their separate teacher pay bills at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, center, listens as lawmakers speak during a meeting of the education conferees from both the House and Senate, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, seeking a compromise on their separate teacher pay bills at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. A number of public school teachers also watched the proceedings from the gallery. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Senate Education Committee member David Jordan, D-Greenwood, studies a conference committee report during a meeting of education conferees from both the House and Senate, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, as they seek a compromise on their separate teacher pay bills at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)