Mississippi House Bill 1439

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-02-17 - Referred To Education
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Establish A School Accountability Dashboard For Mississippi Public Schools To Promote Transparency And Provide Parents With Critical Student Performance Data; To Require School Districts To Publish The School Accountability Dashboard Beginning With The 2025-2026 Academic School Year; To Specify The Timeline By Which The Initial And Subsequent Updates To The Dashboard Are Required To Be Published; To Grant The Department A One-year Period To Identify Any Relevant Data Not Currently Collected To Determine What Said Data Is And Include It In The Dashboard Beginning With The 2026-2027 School Year; To Require The Information In The Dashboard To Be Compiled Into An Easily Accessible, User-friendly Single-page Graphic And Published On The Main Page Of The School District's And The Department's Website; To Require The State Department Of Education To Issue Guidance And The Standardized Dashboard Template To All School Districts By August 1, 2025; To Require The School Accountability Dashboard To Be Aligned With The State's Performance-based Accreditation System And Prescribe The Minimum Data Metrics To Be Included; To Amend Sections 37-17-6 And 37-17-8, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; And For Related Purposes.

School Accountability Dashboard Act; establish to provide parents with critical student performance data.

Rep. Zachary Grady [R]

2025-02-06 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 110 N: 0 NV: 10 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-17	Senate	Referred To Education
2025-02-10	House	Transmitted To Senate
2025-02-06	House	Passed As Amended
2025-02-06	House	Amended
2025-01-29	House	Title Suff Do Pass
2025-01-20	House	Referred To Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	17	6	Amended Code	See Bill Text
37	17	8	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/history/HB/HB1439.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1439IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1439PS.htm
Amendment	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/ham/HB1439_H_Amend_01.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/votes/house/0310005.pdf