2015/04/17 – With testing for the so-called 3rd grade reading gate—which requires students to pass a literacy test before moving to the next grade—now under way around the state, some public school leaders say they’re frustrated because they haven’t been told …..
2015/04/16 – The Mississippi Board of Education on Thursday approved a $122 million contract with Questar Assessment to test hundreds of thousands of school children starting next year. Questar, headquartered in Minneapolis, was among three companies vying for the 10-year deal …..
2015/04/16 – Mississippi residents converged on Jackson this month to push for a $15 minimum hourly wage and union representation for fast-food and other low-wage workers. The movement arrived on the heels of McDonald’s executives announcing a pay increase for workers …..
2015/04/16 – Dr. Cedrick Gray, the superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, seems to be proving tight-fisted Mississippi lawmakers right when they say it doesn’t necessarily take throwing money at schools to improve education. Gray, who has been with JPS since 2012, …..
2015/04/16 – Mississippi politicians love to crow about the state’s low taxes and, in the most recent legislative session, tried unsuccessfully to empty the treasury even more. Yet, a new report out today from financial-information website WalletHub shows that Mississippi taxpayers, the …..
