Education

They envision a dropout prevention pilot program where high school-age students mentor and tutor their middle school-age counterparts during and after school – and get paid for it like a summer job. Each district where […]

(JACKSON, Miss.) –  Jackson State University’s Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management will hold an Emergency Management Training and Interoperability Demonstration at 9 a.m. May 28 at the Mississippi e-Center […]

Lacey Reddix a sophomore Mathematics/Mechanical Engineering dual degree major from Jackson, Miss. was selected as Miss Spelman College 2009-2010 in Atlanta on April 18, 2009. On a platform of “Financial Freedom: Monetary Independence in Economic […]

Many Mississippians were proud to learn that the U.S. Postal Service honored two of its natives. Jackson State University hosted the Pioneers of the Civil Rights Stamp Unveiling. Mississippi civil rights figures Medgar Evers and […]

Special to The Mississippi Link On May 5, 2009, Watkins Elementary School staff and students broke ground on a new, state-of-the-art playground, made possible in part by a $25,000 grant from the Lowe’s Charitable and […]

Special to The Mississippi Link PJ Walker, from Clarksdale, and Demetrius Williams, from Brookhaven, both 18, will spend five weeks this summer in Boston, studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music on full scholarships […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Nineteen JPS students enrolled in the district’s Career Develop-ment Center were honored April 28 at the Nissan Training Center in Madison County. The students are graduates of the Student Technology […]

Outstanding choral music students from every middle and high school in Jackson Public Schools will combine voices from 7-8:30 p.m. April 21 for the district’s annual Secondary Choral Music Festival. The concert will be held […]

PPS Jackson, MS- On Tuesday, May 31, 2009 at 2 p.m., local community organizations will surprise a college-bound student from Lanier High School with a new laptop. The Ask for More Collaborative, Parents for Public […]

2008 seemed to have been the year of “change.” And a major change is exactly what the students, faculty and community of Lanier High School got when the Jackson Public School District announced the new […]