By Cedrick Gray Special to The Mississippi Link Recently the Mississippi Legislature took up the issue of school choice, which is meant to offer scholars and their families options including public schools, charter schools, magnet […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Students from Mississippi school districts with academic ratings of C, D or F could cross district lines to attend charter schools elsewhere under a measure moving forward in the state House. […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, winner of a 2015 Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, will deliver the keynote address during the 10th Annual Creative Arts Festival: Ordinary Heroes […]
Jackson City Council’s regular meeting on March 22 was held at the historic Woodworth Chapel on the campus of Tougaloo College. Occasionally City Council meetings are held on college campuses as a way of engaging […]
CLINTON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Board of Education released a revised policy Thursday that for the first time regulates when public school students statewide can be physically restrained or placed in private spaces because […]
By Shanderia K. Posey Editor An online petition seeking the removal of Hinds County School District Superintendent Dr. Delesicia Martin was posted on Change.org Wednesday. The petition was created by Parents 4 A Better HCSD, […]
STARKVILLE, Mississippi (AP) — A Starkville 5th grader is heading to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Soyeon Park is a student at Henderson Elementary. Park won The Commercial Appeal’s 73rd Annual Mid-South Spelling Bee on […]
By Judy Willis Special to The Mississippi Link Education is the focus of part two of this series. Stacey Aileen Donaldson, national board project manager at the Mississippi Board of Education is featured. She has […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A plan to raise reading requirements for third-graders survived the Mississippi Senate by one vote Wednesday. Senators voted 25-24 to pass Senate Bill 2157, which would require third-graders to score higher than […]
By Janice K. Neal-Vincent Contributing Writer The nation’s 19th Poet Laureate from 2012-14 and Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey made a special appearance at Millsaps College Feb. 19 for Friday Forum. The well-attended public program was […]
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