2015/05/27 – A popularly cited statistic involves private corrections companies pouring over third-grade reading scores in a given jurisdiction to project how many prison beds will be needed in a decade, when those illiterate third graders go off track and run …..
2015/05/27 – CARROLLTON, Miss.— In the weeks leading up to Mississippi’s new third-grade literacy test this past April, Zanysha Amos, age 9, was a bundle of anxiety. She couldn’t eat; she couldn’t sleep. Ever-present worry furrowed her little brow. When Zanysha …..
2015/05/26 – Hinds County officials said immediate actions are being taken to address the concerns raised in a report by the U.S. Department of Justice on the status of the troubled jail facilities in Jackson and Raymond. Those actions include …..
2015/05/26 – JACKSON, Miss. (AP)—Republican legislative leaders are asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to restore the original description for one of the two school funding amendments that will be on the ballot in November. In papers filed with the high court …..
2015/05/26 – May 26, 1857: Dred Scott won his freedom from slavery two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he had no right to sue because he was property, not a person. The sons of Scott’s first owner, Peter …..
