“There has been a real powerful sense … that the future they were promised has been taken away from them.” 2015/5/21-Maybe the campus protests seemed rather isolated at first. Dissatisfaction with the administration. Outrage over bad decisions. A student altercation …..
The negative effects of mass-incarceration are even worse than we thought 2015/5/26-Voting matters. Though many Americans believe that voting is either useless or merely a civic duty, in reality it carries huge consequences for the decisions of politicians. There is …..
2015/05/22 – Republican legislative leaders are asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to restore the original description for one of the two school funding amendments on the November ballot. In papers filed Friday, attorneys for legislative leaders say a circuit judge had …..
2015/05/22 – The Mississippi Department of Education will seek public input on the controversial Common Core State Standards it adopted five years ago in an effort to improve them. Starting next month, the agency will make available a website where individuals …..
2015/05/21 – Thousands of high school seniors in Mississippi are starting to receive their diplomas. But according to the state Department of Education, nearly one-in-four public school students fail to graduate. Education officials have eliminated one of the state’s requirements for …..
