Mississippi has struggled to retain school truancy officers because of low, stagnant pay. A House leader killed a bill last week that would have given them a raise. The bill had passed unanimously in the Senate.
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today March 6, 2023 Terri Hill from Jones County has been working as a school attendance officer for 26 years. After taxes, she takes home about $28,000. Legislation to increase the base salary for Hill and her colleagues — who were left out of teacher and state worker pay raises in recent years — passed the Senate unanimously but was killed last week by House Education Committee Chair Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach.
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