2015/05/13 – MCCOMB, Miss.—Monique Gilmore, who directs school and community relations for the McComb Public School District, enthusiastically greeted students at a school celebration last month, placing green Mardi Gras beads around their necks while proclaiming: “Here comes another scholar star!” …..
2015/05/13 – On May 6, Jackson Public Schools seemed to be suffering from a split personality. That morning, at Wingfield High School in south Jackson, education advocates and school officials hailed the school for lowering discipline problems by 94 percent between …..
2015/05/13 – Rankin County school officials on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for four percent salary increases for cafeteria workers, assistant teachers, bus drivers and administrators effective July 1. The superintendent also received the same salary increase, raising the amount from …..
2015/05/12 – Earlier this year, an eighth-grader in Louisiana was riding the bus home after school when he and several other students started throwing Skittles at each other. The bus driver asked the kids to knock it off and continued making …..
Editors’ note: On Tuesday, May 12, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling his “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,” a 13-point plan framed as the political left’s answer to Republicans’ 1994 “Contract With America,” in a speech outside …..
