Featured MDE: more students taking AP exams, getting better scores
More than 20 percent of Mississippi public high school students in the graduating class of 2017 took an Advanced Placement (AP) Exam while in high...
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Featured JPS update: corrective action plan to be presented in March
by Alex Paton
It has been six months since the Jackson Public School District was declared by the State Board of Education to be in a state of...
Featured MDE: Mississippi’s graduation rate better than ever before
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Education has released the high school graduation rates for the 2016-17 school year, which show that the state’s graduation rate has...
Featured Mississippi schools suffering from chronic absenteeism
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released the most recent school- and district-level chronic absence data, which shows that 14.2 percent of Mississippi students were...
Featured MDE announces ESA lottery for special needs kids
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Education announced plans for a lottery on February 8th to award 90 Education Scholarship Accounts (ESA) for the 2017-18 school year...
Featured Governor, State Superintendent tout education improvements in MS
by Alex Paton
As Mississippi is moving toward a new funding formula for public education its strides in education are being recognized. Mississippi was recently named one of...
Featured Senator Hill: eliminate the MDE
by Alex Paton
A Senate Bill that would do away with the Department of Education, that’s what one Senator has proposed for Mississippi. Senator Angela Hill has submitted...
Featured Senator Hill: eliminate the MS department of education
by Alex Paton
A Senate Bill that would do away with the Department of Education, that’s what one Senator has proposed for Mississippi. Senator Angela Hill has submitted...
MDE looks to get feedback on how to design MS report cards
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Education has released a survey so that they can receive feedback on the redesign of the Mississippi Report Card. Each year,...
Community learning centers to receive over $14M in federal funding
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi State Board of Education met Thursday and approved the distribution of $14.1 million in federal funds for the 21 Century Community Learning Center...