The Associated Press Mississippi’s public schools face unintended, unfair and unhelpful outcomes in state accountability rankings if the U.S. Department of Education does not approve the state’s plan to freeze those rankings during the transition […]
GREENVILLE, Mississippi (AP) — A homicide investigation is underway after a fatal stabbing on the campus of a Greenville elementary school. Susie Trigg Elementary became a crime scene Tuesday after an employee was stabbed by […]
Organization exec wants to see Mississippi program expanded By Candi Wyatt Guest Contributor WASHINGTON, D.C. – A packed-ballroom audience burst into cheers and applause when former Secretary of State, senator and first lady Hillary Clinton […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi public schoolteachers can look forward to a $2,500 pay increase over the next two years on top of normal annual raises, with Gov. Phil Bryant signing a bill Tuesday that […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — State officials say they plan to use bolstered state funding to hire more literacy coaches and better train teachers as schools seek to meet legislative requirements that all third graders read […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — David Jordan was born on a Mississippi Delta plantation during the Great Depression, when segregation and poverty created a bleak outlook for a son of black sharecroppers. Eighty years later, Jordan […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi schools won’t be forced to start the academic year in late August, as they had been expecting to do. Gov. Phil Bryant on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 2571). It negates a […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Black students in Mississippi are much more likely to be taught by rookie teachers, and black males are suspended at the second-highest rates in the country. Those are among the findings […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — State senators have confirmed Carey Wright as Mississippi’s state superintendent of education. Senators voted 46-6 for Wright Tuesday after a brief debate. Opponents say they’re concerned about Wright’s advocacy of Common […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant hasn’t decided whether to sign a bill that would erase a school calendar law he signed two years ago, a top aide said Thursday. “If the Legislature’s […]
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