HB 1176 Summary

• Establishes "Average Daily Membership (ADM)" as a new metric for funding calculations in Mississippi's Adequate Education Program (MAEP), effective fiscal year 2023-2024, replacing reliance on Average Daily Attendance (ADA).

• Implements a 90% attendance threshold where districts funded on ADM switch to ADA-based funding only if attendance falls below 90% of their ADM.

• Directs the State Auditor to conduct unannounced student counts in months two and three of each school year, with authority to adjust MAEP allocations if reported attendance exceeds 103% of actual counts.

• Reduces the minimum school term attendance requirement from 63% to 60% of the normal school day and removes the provision that absences exceeding 37% of the instructional day count as full-day absences.

• Updates transportation and reporting calculations to use ADM instead of ADA, effective with the 2023-2024 school year.