2015/05/18 – Two Mississippi students have been named 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholars. Luke Eckstein, a senior at St. Aloysius High School in Vicksburg, and Meaghan Lee, a senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Ridgeland, were selected by the White House …..
2015/05/18 – With bottom-barrel state funding and limited resources, Mississippi educators will spend the next three months trying to change the fate of more than 5,600 students doomed to repeat the third grade. Nearly 15 percent of public school third graders …..
2015/05/18 – CLEVELAND – A federal judge must decide whether this Mississippi Delta college town’s school system is an oasis of integration or a glaring example of continued segregation. The court hearing opening today before U.S. District Judge Debra Brown in Greenville …..
2015/05/18 – Wingfield High School’s Principal Willie Killins’ words are heartbreaking. Describing the students whom he recruits into his in-school leadership program, Killin told The Clarion Ledger on May 7, “These aren’t bad kids. They’re usually adolescents facing adult problems — …..
2015/05/15 – Javarcia Ivory has always been solution-oriented. The 18-year-old Clinton student preparing to attend Stanford University on a full ride in the fall looks for solutions on both the small and large scale. Ivory fought a lifetime battle with speech …..
