2015/05/19 – GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Sixty-one years and one day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial school segregation was illegal in Brown vs. Board of Education, lawyers Monday presented clashing visions of what one Mississippi school district must …..
2015/05/19 – The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office will hold eight hearings across the state about Initiative Measure 42 and Alternative Measure 42-A. Initiative 42 seeks to amend the constitution to require that Mississippi fully fund public schools in accordance with …..
2015/05/18 – The Mississippi Vision Foundation is vying for a $25,000 grant to provide free eye exams and reading coaches to Canton third graders who failed last month’s statewide reading assessment. Some seven dozen children in the school district – and …..
2015/05/18 – Preachers, gangs, politicians, the Nation of Islam and a rainbow of social-justice groups are all poised for the “fix,” but will Baltimore really emerge reborn? Baltimoreans are a bit touchy about the attention their city is receiving from “outsiders”—everyone …..
2015/05/18 – In January 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Meridian Public School District, seeking to address and prevent racial discrimination in student discipline. Soon afterward, Advancement Project — in collaboration with ACLU of Mississippi, the …..
