2015/03/25 – An Oxford school patron is asking a Hinds County judge to remove from the November ballot an alternative proposed by the Legislature to a citizen-sponsored education funding initiative. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the lawsuit was filed Tuesday in …..
2015/03/23 – It’s official: Mississippi high school seniors no longer must pass all four subject-area tests to graduate. State Board of Education members voted Friday on the change, which takes effect immediately. According to the new policy, this year’s seniors …..
2015/03/19 – (Jackson, MS) – In light of the hanging death of Otis Byrd from Claiborne County, Mississippi, the NAACP Mississippi State Conference has released the following statement: From Derrick Johnson, President, NAACP Mississippi State Conference “The Mississippi NAACP calls …..
2015/03/01 – Mississippi schools spend up to one of every four days of the year giving their students standardized tests. The Mississippi Association of State Superintendents put the range of testing between 38 and 45 days of the 180-day school year. “Then …..
2015/02/02 – WASHINGTON – Joan Trumpauer Mulholland remembers the single road running through a wooded area that led to Tougaloo College. Mulholland and other students involved in the civil rights movement 50 years ago knew the defenders of segregation parked along that …..
