2015/05/12 – So far, voters in north Mississippi are trickling into the polls to cast ballots in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Rep. Alan Nunnelee, who died of brain cancer in February. Secretary of State Delbert …..
2015/05/12 – The student failure rate of the new third-grade reading test is hitting hard at some low-income school districts that will not easily find the resources to help students pass subsequent tests. Mississippi legislators created the test, often referred as …..
2015/05/11 – Jackson Public Schools could retain up to twice as many third graders as the rest of the state. Results from the so-called third-grade gate test, which requires students to demonstrate reading proficiency before moving on to the fourth grade, …..
2015/05/10 – On June 20, it will be three years since Mississippi’s last execution. On that date in 2012, Gary Carl Simmons Jr., a former grocery store butcher, was executed for dismembering a man during a 1996 attack in which he …..
2015/05/08 – The Mississippi Department of Education on Friday released statewide results of the third-grade reading assessment, showing how many students from each school face retention due to the state’s new Literacy-Based Promotion Act. See the results for each elementary school below. …..
