2015/05/26 – The potential for nearly 15 percent of Mississippi students to repeat the third grade after flunking reading tests has amped up the political, partisan fear and loathing that passes for public education policy debate in this state. It’s somber …..
2015/05/26 – The deadline imposed by a local union chapter of teachers in Jackson Public Schools has come and gone, and Superintendent Cedrick Gray has said he will not meet with the group because they refuse to include other stakeholders. The …..
2015/05/26 – Two decades ago, Lani Guinier became a liberal icon when President Bill Clinton proposed—and then withdrew, under conservative pressure—her nomination to head of the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. A racially charged 1993 Wall Street Journal op-ed unfairly labeled Guinier a “quota …..
2015/05/22 – Republican legislative leaders are asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to restore the original description for one of the two school funding amendments on the November ballot. In papers filed Friday, attorneys for legislative leaders say a circuit judge had …..
2015/05/22 – JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal officials say faltering efforts to improve conditions at Hinds County’s two jails have been far inadequate to overcome decrepit physical conditions, rampant violence and poor staffing. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a 29-page …..
