2015/05/11 – Jackson Public Schools could retain up to twice as many third graders as the rest of the state. Results from the so-called third-grade gate test, which requires students to demonstrate reading proficiency before moving on to the fourth grade, …..
2015/05/11 – Racial and religious slurs as well as comments regarding the female anatomy fill what appears to be the social media page of a high-ranking officer in the Jackson Police Department. Dating back to 2009, the Twitter page of Commander …..
2015/05/10 – BALTIMORE – Some do it because there are warrants for their arrest. Others because they possess drugs, are seeking a thrill, or are just plain scared. Sometimes people do it even when they have done nothing wrong. Young men …..
2015/05/10 – On June 20, it will be three years since Mississippi’s last execution. On that date in 2012, Gary Carl Simmons Jr., a former grocery store butcher, was executed for dismembering a man during a 1996 attack in which he …..
2015/05/08 – The Mississippi Department of Education on Friday released statewide results of the third-grade reading assessment, showing how many students from each school face retention due to the state’s new Literacy-Based Promotion Act. See the results for each elementary school below. …..
