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 – Mississippi has screened 5,578 TANF applicants for drug use since August. Only eight (0.14 percent) have tested positive. Mississippi does not offer many lifelines to families who fall onto hard times. One of the few is Temporary Assistance for …..
2015/05/14 – WASHINGTON – Federal health officials turned to places such as Jackson and Belzoni when they sought ideas for educating people on how to take advantage of the health insurance they had just signed up for under the Affordable Care Act. …..
2015/05/14 – WAYNESBORO, Miss. – Federal government oversight of the Wayne County, Mississippi, school system has ended. The Department of Justice says in a news release that a federal judge signed an order Tuesday dismissing the longstanding school desegregation case. The …..