2015/05/04 – State Superintendent Carey Wright says the state Department of Education will conduct its own study of the embattled Common Core education standards and take public input, but she still supports them for Mississippi schools. Carey on Tuesday was the …..
2015/05/01 – Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher, hired to clean up after corruption removed his predecessor, has his first political fight on his hands. He is removing inmates from all of the Joint State County Work Programs Aug. 1 and moving …..
2015/04/30 – Sixth through 12th graders in Jackson Public Schools will take another test this year after the school board approved hiring Renaissance Learning to implement online tests called universal screeners for these students. JPS is the only school district the …..
2015/04/29 – Isn’t it wonderful when a dirty switch gets one-upped? That’s the way it went down in Jackson recently, when Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd altered the language of a flytrap ballot initiative created by anti-education legislators. Last year, One …..
2015/04/28 – Mississippi district’s black students make up a third of enrollment, but half of all suspensions. A fourth-grader suspended five times for “misbehavior.” A third-grader removed from of his classroom for eight days because he pushed a bathroom stall door …..
