August 17, 2016 – The NAACP unveiled strong new resolutions at its national convention in Cincinnati. One of its loudest was a demand for a nationwide halt on new charter schools. The NAACP has been opposed to charter schools for …..
2016/06/27 – In 1964, the brutal slayings of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, rocked the country. Their deaths cast a spotlight on the horrific violence and injustice already known by those who lived in …..
2016/06/12 – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP is troubled by the progress of the Clarksdale hearings regarding the allegations of cheating at Heidelburg Elementary School in the Clarksdale Municipal School District. Our concern, at its heart, is for the well-being …..
2016/06/12 – Jackson attorney Lisa Ross said she fears Mississippi Department of Education officials are defining the argument in their case against her client, Heidelberg Elementary School Principal Lawanda Tyler-Jones. In its ongoing investigation into allegations of widespread teacher-assisted student …..
2016/04/08 – Legislators are using self-inflicted revenue shortfalls to push for major consolidation of state schools, despite consolidation’s limited national success. House Education Committee members voted to consolidate the municipal district of Winona into its neighboring Carroll County and Montgomery County …..
