NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Jan. 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted Jan. 20, to add five new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 18 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. The ELC expansion is made possible by $6.3 million...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Jan. 20, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to allow school districts to use hybrid scheduling if needed to minimize the current spread of COVID-19. The hybrid scheduling option is available immediately and will extend through March 11, 2022. Hybrid scheduling enables districts...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 19, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is announcing that the 3rd grade reading assessment, which helps determine promotion to the 4th grade, will be administered from April 4-22 across the state. The Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA) enacted in 2013 was created to help ensure...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  January 11, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) announces that Mississippi high school students Emily Adcock and Vaibhavi Mahajan will join Sen. Roger F. Wicker and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in representing Mississippi during the 60th annual USSYP Washington Week, to be held March 6-9. Emily...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 10, 2022   JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) 2020-21 Superintendent’s Annual Report has been released, detailing how Mississippi students, teachers and school leaders continued to strive in classrooms during the Covid-19 pandemic by building upon historic academic gains of recent years. View the report online...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 5, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) will hold a public hearing about proposed revisions to the state’s academic standards for social studies at 9 a.m. Jan. 28 at the Mississippi Agricultural Museum Sparkman Auditorium in Jackson. The proposed changes are available through the Secretary...Read More