Education

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 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 […]

Special the The Mississippi Link ITTA BENA – Mississippi Valley State University faculty and staff heard from their new leader on Monday as Donna H. Oliver, Ph.D, delivered her first official University address as president […]

Ascot Media Houston, TX, January 6, 2009 — Army Brigadier General A.J. Tata is giving every dime of royalties from his new book, Sudden Threat (Variance Publishing) to the United Services Organization Hospital Services Fund […]

November 21, 2008 JPS School Board President Delmer C. Stamps has been elected to a two-year term on the Mississippi School Boards Association’s Board of Directors. Elections to the MSBA board were conducted by a […]

Special to The Mississippi Link From Nov. 7-9, 2008, the Caribbean nation of Antigua & Barbuda will welcome a distinguished array of African-American, Canadian, British and Caribbean authors, publishers and literary agents to its shores […]

Jackson State University’s Jake Ayers Institute for Research will hold its second annual conference this month for women of color in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. The mini symposium, “Advancing the Status of […]