As required in section 1111(b)(8)(C) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the U.S. Department of Education is asking each State Educational Agency (SEA) to submit a State Plan to Ensure Equitable Access to Excellent Educators (State Plan) …..
2015/04/27 – “15, 15, 17, you have 17 blue.” Children at this Head Start in Jackson are learning how to count and recognize colors in a beautifully decorated classroom. Nita Thompson, Executive Director of the Head Start Association in Mississippi says …..
2015/04/25 – Gov. Phil Bryant wants to pay lip service to state hospitals, but his platitudes aren’t helping their bottom line. The governor is pushing to create healthcare-based economic development zones in the state, but his proposal won’t help medical facilities …..
2015/04/23 – Prosecutors will dismiss capital murder charges against Willie Jerome Manning, 46, for the deaths of two Starkville women in 1993 as Manning continues fighting his conviction in a separate case. Manning is currently on death row at Parchman for …..
2015/04/22 – It always happens—just when a fad arrives in Mississippi, the fad’s progenitors become less enamored of it. Take the so-called “third grade reading gate”—which requires students to pass a literacy test before moving to the next grade—now under way …..
