2014/09/23 – Vicksburg, MS – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP is pleased to announce that the National NAACP President & CEO Cornell William Brooks will serve as keynote speaker during its Freedom Fund Awards Banquet on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the Vicksburg Convention Center. The semi-formal affair will culminate the state conference’s …..
2014/06/16 – Fifty years after Freedom Summer sparked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, a new report released today by the Center for American Progress, in conjunction with an event exploring the subject, examines how current demographic and political changes in heavily …..
2014/04/18 – Mississippi is reworking its rating system for school districts and high schools after federal officials demanded the ratings put more weight on high school graduation. The state Board of Education voted Friday to seek public comment on the revised …..
2014/01/08 – Today, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released a Dear Colleague Letter that explains schools’ obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The letter is …..
2014/01/07 – Teach For America (TFA) receives hundreds of millions of public and private dollars and has garnered acclaim for sending college graduates, who do not typically have an education background, to teach in low-income rural and urban schools for …..
