2015/01/06 – Common Core opponents packed the state Capitol on the first day of the 2015 Legislative session to show strength in numbers against the federal education standards they claim harms children. Carrying homemade signs and slick banners, the protestors gathered …..
2014/12/28 – STARKVILLE – Since we’re headed into a courthouse-to-statehouse election year in Mississippi, the political conversation will of course turn to who is responsible for any and every thing that’s not to the liking of the state’s electorate. Democrats tell …..
2014/12/18 – The Mississippi Board of Education is abandoning incremental goals in favor of big ones, according to a strategic plan released Thursday. The previous goal of raising the state’s graduation rate to 83 percent? Now officials want every student to …..
2014/12/18 – A state board has rejected a contract that would have bought tests for Mississippi students with intellectual disabilities. The Personal Service Contract Review Board voted Tuesday to reject the $1 million-a-year pact with the University of Kansas. It said …..
2014/12/17 – The Mississippi Legislature does not officially convene until January, but the two parties are already wrangling over how to spend the state’s money. With Republicans controlling both houses and the Governor’s Mansion, not a lot of compromise is necessary …..
