The Parents' Campaign

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024-2025, the parents' campaign (tpc) focused on engaging the public in the legislative process, with the goal of moving forward policies that improve Mississippi's public schools. Communication & outreach: to further its goal of strengthening the state's public education system, tpc worked cooperatively with various parent groups, school districts, education organizations, and business and civic groups statewide. - continued on schedule otpc continued to grow its membership and social media presence. Throughout the year, tpc provided regular email and social media updates to inform members of state and federal legislation and policy issues affecting public education in Mississippi. Public engagement & information: tpc continued to expand and add resources to its website (msparentscampaign.org). The site allows tpc members and the public to access all features at no cost. Visitors to the site can perform a range of tasks, including identifying state legislators and members of the u.s. Congress who represent each school district and easily obtaining contact information for each representative or senator, and viewing information specific to the school district, such as funding statistics and accountability ratings. Tpc's online resources include a searchable archive of voting records for current and former legislators. Legislators' current votes on key bills are shared regularly via social media and member emails during each legislative session. Visitors to tpc's website also can find, by school district, contact information for statewide, regional, and local media outlets and appropriate contact information for submitting opinion pieces and letters to the editor, as well as tips for doing so successfully.tpc engaged members and the public through meetings with parents and educators, regular updates for key volunteers, and by communications via network emails and social media campaigns promoting the importance of fully funding public schools, paying teachers a professional salary, preserving state revenue, rejecting the diversion of public funds to private schools, and investing in pre-k and other supports and services to benefit Mississippi children. There is no cost for membership or for any service provided by tpc.legislative action: during the 2025 regular and special sessions of the Mississippi legislature, tpc tracked state policy decisions and lawmakers' actions by attending weekly meetings of key legislative committees and monitoring Mississippi house and senate floor debates and votes. Lawmakers' votes were reported by tpc via the tools described in previous sections of this report.members of the parents' campaign influenced legislative action by calling, texting, and emailing their representatives and senators, posting on social media, organizing meetings, and recruiting other concerned citizens to join their efforts. Tpc staff met regularly with legislative leaders to express public school priorities and coordinated legislative advocacy initiatives with other education advocacy organizations.tpc's successes in the 2025 regular and special sessions of the Mississippi legislature included:- full funding of public schools- $3.5-million appropriation for the Mississippi teacher residency program- level funding for pre-k- defeat of multiple school choice measures- defeat of repeated efforts to divert additional state revenue to private schools (with no accountability and no oversight) via tax credits that deplete the state funding available to public schools

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
• Fundraising efficiency: $15.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -19.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings