The Sun Herald reports: "The House's $2 billion K-12 spending bill, which passed by a 103-18 vote Tuesday, would fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a formula established in 1997 to ensure equity in spending for students in poorer school districts, and fund the fourth year of a five-year teacher pay raise plan. The House plan spends $184 million more on K-12 education than the joint Legislative Budget Committee recommendation. But the House plan faces a long, hard fight with the Senate and Gov. Haley Barbour, who have called some of the figures House leaders use to fund education "funny money.'"
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