NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: September 24, 2019 (JACKSON, MS) – The Mississippi Department of Education announces a series of regional meetings across the state for families of students in kindergarten through grade 3. At the meetings, families will receive an overview of the state law concerning literacy and assessment, as well as strategies that...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: September 23, 2019 Media Contacts Angela Rutherford 662-915-7625 araines@olemiss.edu Bruce Coffey 804.310.1214 bruce.coffey@readtothem.org JACKSON, Miss. – Starting in October schools across Mississippi will kick off the inaugural year of Mississippi Reads One Book, a statewide family literacy program in which elementary students, families, and schools all read one common novel...Read More